The 84-year-old Lin Wusun is one of the founders of the Department of Translation from Chinese into Foreign Languages and International Exchange at the TAC.

He was once the vice editor-in-chief of Beijing Review, director of the CIPG and vice director of the English Experts Committee of the National Accreditation Examinations for Translators and Interpreters (NAETI).

He was the managing director and vice chairman of the 3rd TAC Council, standing vice chairman of the 4th Council and advisor at the 5th and 6th Councils. As a prominent TAC leader, he groomed the organizational set-up of the TAC Secretariat, laying a solid organizational foundation for the association's future development. Lin also established the Chinese-English Translation Committee.

From 1996 to 2002, Lin served as a council member and chairman of the developing countries committee in the FIT, greatly expanding the TAC's international influence.

He received the Outstanding Contribution to Translation Industry Award at the Second National Translation Conference in Beijing on Dec. 6, 2012.

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