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Saturday, 2 August 2008 at 02:39

My Brief Introduction
I graduated from Hangzhou University, now known as Zhejiang University, majoring in English in the 1960s. After graduation, I worked as an English teacher in high school. Now I am a senior teacher of English (an equivalent to associate professor of English in university), director of Ningbo Municipal Foreign Languages Translation & Interpretation Association, and special advisor in foreign teachers’ affairs for Hangzhou Helen Education Network Company, Ltd.

Since 1984, I have not only taught English to senior students conscientiously, but have also devoted my spare time to writing articles for English Learning edited by Beijing Foreign Studies University, Foreign Languages Teaching in Schools by Beijing Normal University, Shanghai English Post for Middle School Students, China Daily, etc., publishing quite a lot of articles and works in those papers and magazines. The year of 1993 was the 50th anniversary of the Voice of America. I contributed an article to its column. As a result, VOA offered me a copy of The American Heritage Dictionary, College Edition as an award.
During the period between 1997 and 98, when already 57-58 years old, I was engaged in further education in terms of English. Subsequently, I earned a certificate for postgraduate courses in English.

Upon retirement in 2000, I was employed by Ningbo Huamao Foreign Languages School, under Huamao Group. I worked for the school for 7 years, serving as manager in charge of foreign teachers' affairs, concurrently a Chinese-English bilingual translator and interpreter. I translated over 100,000-word important documents for Huamao Group and Huamao School and drafted many English documents, which all went to foreign countries. I was also English editor of Huamao School’s paper.

By the end of August 2007, I left the school for Beijing to study Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University for further education, majoring in Chinese, especially standard mandarin, in order to be a teacher of Chinese overseas.

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