From July 14-15, the Forum on MTI Education and Teaching in the New Era & the Second Liaoning MTI Symposium on Education and Teaching was held in DUFL. The forum was co-hosted by Liaoning Belt and Road People-to-People Exchange and University-Enterprise Alliance in Language Industry, Liaoning Provincial Committee for Professional Graduate Education Translation & Interpreting Subcommittee, the Northeastern Office of WITTA, Liaoning Belt and Road People-to-People Exchange Collaborative Innovation Center, and co-organized by the post-graduate department and SATI of DUFL.

On July 14, Professor Liu Hong, the President of DUFL and Mr. Huang Youyi, Executive Vice President of China Translation Association and Chairman of China National Committee for Translation & Interpreting Education, delivered opening remarks respectively. President Liu also conferred certificates of experts for DUFL MTI education on the keynote speakers of this forum.

Keynote speakers at the forum were Mr. Huang Youyi, Chairman of China National Committee for Translation & Interpreting Education, Mr. Chen Mingming, Vice President of Translation Association of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Liuheping, member of China National Committee for Translation & Interpreting, and also Professor Yang Junfeng and Professor Li Defeng. The keynote speeches focused on the cultivation of MTI students practice abilities, course design and reform, status quo and challenges in translation, and etc.

On July 15, the participants joined two parallel sessions, discussing hot topics as well as cutting-edge research questions in MTI education. In the closing ceremony, Professor Yang Junfeng delivered the closing remarks.

Following the forum and the parallel sessions, MTI teaching open classes and translation training camp were given by experts from translation industry, such as UTH International, Petrostar, SDL etc.