A Literature Review on Translation of Corporate Publicity and Annual Reports

Fang HUANG, Changbao LI

Abstract


As sustainable development and green economy are becoming a universal consensus of the international community, energy security has been one of the most important issues facing the world today, spotlighting the development of energy economy. Against this backdrop, an accurate translation of the annual reports which unveil the enterprises’ performance could help promote the interconnection and cooperation between countries on energy economy. Based on the collection, sorting and classification of related materials, this paper gives a relatively comprehensive literature review on the translation of corporate publicity and annual reports by taking energy company’s annual reports as an example in an attempt to clarify the status quo of relative researches and their inner relations, which may be of some help to the future researchers with their relevant researches.


Keywords


Corporate publicity translation; Translation of annual reports; Energy economy

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