Jan 8, 2004 22:01
20 yrs ago
Chinese term

Company names

Chinese to English Bus/Financial IT (Information Technology) IT
1 集团公司
2 股份有限公司
3 集团有限公司
4 集团
5 有限公司

eg
1中国电信集团公司
2中国电信股份有限公司
3上海理想信息产业集团有限公司
4上海电信信息内容服务集团
5上海电信百事应信息有限公司

注意:
2 = China Telecom Corporation Ltd.
3 = Shanghai Ideal Information Industry (Group) Co.Ltd

Is there a style guide/standard form from translating Chinese company names? Use Ltd only with 有限?
集团/集团公司=>Group? 股份有限公司=corporation? Is Pty Ltd used at all? Any difference in nomenclature between state and private companies? Any other advice? Thanks.

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Jan 8, 2004:
Still struggling with these names Yes, I thought I had posted this q yesterday...

Proposed translations

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My understanding

lai'an, you are still struggling with these names.

Here is my understanding:

1 集团公司: (Group) Corp which consits of serveral companies. Example http://www.china-gdf.com

2 股份有限公司: Co. Ltd, which is a limited compnay with shares issued to the shareholders, mainly the employees. Example http://www.spc.com.cn/

3 集团有限公司: (Group) Co Ltd, a limited corporation consisted of a group of sub-companies. Example http://www.cimc.com/DefaultE.asp

4 集团: Group, which consists of a group of sub-companies

5 有限公司: Co Ltd, which has no shares issued. but sometime they don't change their names after have shares issued.

Peer comment(s):

agree welknown
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agree Marc Van Gastel
12 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "This was very fast, with helpful explanation and examples. Wow. (Thank you to Surinder as well.) 1 China Telecommunications Group of Companies 2 China Telecom Corporation Ltd (from their own website) 3 Shanghai Ideal Information Industry (Group) Co. Ltd (from their own website) 4 Shanghai Telecom Information Content Service Group 5 Shanghai Telecom Baishiying Information Co Ltd The input on 1 and 5 was particularly useful. I was very pleased with the result, and I have a good reference for the future now. Thanks to everyone. "
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My Reply to it is as Under:

集团公司 :GROUP OF COMPANIES
股份有限公司 :Stock holding Co Ltd
集团有限公司 :Group Co Ltd
集团 :Group
有限公司 :Co Ltd
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