On April 9, 2016, the first meeting of Board of Directors of LBDA was held in Qingdao, attended by Mr. Huang Youyi, Co-Chairman of LBDA and Executive Vice President of the Translators Association of China, Mr. Huang Song, Co-Chairman of LBDA and General Manager of China Translation Corporation, as well as the representatives of more than 20 initiators.

Group Photo of Members of Board of Directors of LBDA at the First Board Meeting

The meeting mainly discussed how to carry out and develop rules and regulations of LBDA and the Opening Program of Language Big Data. Besides, Macao Polytechnic Institute was accepted by consensus as a new director of LBDA at the meeting, and issues such as the time to start membership application, open language big data resources, commence LIT program spokesman application, and hold the board meeting in the second half of 2016 were also discussed.

The first meeting of Board of Directors of LBDA

As a major project with breakthroughs in integrating and sharing the resources of various sectors including governments, business, universities and research, the Opening Program of Language Big Data is bound to greatly accelerate the implementation of China’s “Internet +” and the Belt and Road Initialtve, driving China’ economic growth. As the first board meeting came to an end, the Language, the Big Data and Openness Program announced its start of a long but promising journey to a better prospect of education, technology, economy, and the society.