Twenty-year Journey of China's Standardization in Language Services:Progress,Challenges,and Measures
Standardization serves as a vital means for improving service quality,fostering fair market competition,and facilitating the transition from self-regulation to external regulation in the language services industry.Since the introduction of the first national lan-guage service standard in 2003,China's standardization in language services has undergone a twenty-year development and achieved significant milestones.This paper provides an overview of the progress of language services standardization in China,and applies Sand-ers'Principles of Standardization to figure out the existing challenges and propose corresponding countermeasures.It aims to lay theo-retical foundations for the continued advancement of China's standardization in language services.
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