5 Chinese Terms from Last Week's News (9 March 2015 to 13 March 2015)

五个中文生词从上个星期的新闻

Last week's press releases from the Ministry of Information & Information Technology, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, China Mobile, and China Unicom contained select words with which one may expand their Chinese vocabulary in the areas of telecoms, tech, and finance.

English	Chinese
	汉字	Pinyin
Spectrum	频谱	Pínpǔ
Multinational Customers	跨国 客户	Kuàguó kèhù
Submarine / Underwater Cable	海缆	Hǎi lǎn
Engineering	工程	Gōngchéng
Brand Building	品牌 建设工作	Pǐnpái jiànshè gōngzuò

Hanzi in the Main Terminology:

频 pín	谱 pǔ
跨 kuà	国 guó	客 kè	户 hù
海 hǎi	缆 lǎn		工 gōng	程 chéng
品 pǐn	牌 pái	建 jiàn	设 shè	作 zuò

Notes:

• 海缆 is short for 海底电缆 (海底電纜 Hǎidǐ diànlǎn).
• 跨国客户 is short for 跨国企业客户 (Kuàguó qǐyè kèhù), which follows the same pattern as in common English use of dropping the word enterprise (企业) from the term. Other corporate-related uses of 跨国 include
  
  

  English	Chinese
  	汉字	Pinyin
  Multinational Corporation	跨国公司	Kuàguó gōngsī
  to globalize	跨国化	Kuàguó huà

Last Week's Terminology | Next Week's Terminology
This Week's Japanese Terminology

Sources:

China Mobile	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk20n1
China Unicom	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk20n2
Huawei	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk20n3
Alcatel-Lucent	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk20n4b
中华人民共和国工业和信息化部 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk20n5