On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of China Translation and Publishing Corporation, I’d like to express my heartfelt congratulations and sincere greetings to you from the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York.
China Translation and Publishing  Corporation  was  established  a  quarter  of a  century  ago  when China successfully  restored  its  lawful  seat in the  United Nations. At  that time, your corporation undertook the great responsibility of translating the Chinese documents that remained untranslated since the establishment of the United Nations, and gradually took on the task of translating current documents.
Your  corporation  has  a translating  team  with  strong  professional capability, which is constantly striving for perfection. It not only renders high-quality services to the Headquarters of the United Nations and Geneva, Vienna, Nairobi and other conference services departments under the Department of General Assembly  Affairs and Conference Services, but also provides  translation  service  to  such  United  Nations  organization as UNDP, UNESCO, UNIDO, FAQ, World Bank, IMF, IMO, ILO, UNHCR and UNICEF. In 1995, your corporation undertook the task of the translation, printing and binding of two blue books: The United Nations and Cambodia and The United Nations and the Advancement of Women, an important document of the Fourth World Conference on Women. For the 30 years, your corporation  has made  special  contributions  to this unique international organization, and gained due confidence from the United Nations.
In China’s powerful current of reform and opening-up, your corporation is also experiencing significant changes, with your business scope expanding from translation to publishing and printing. Now the management level of your corporation has undergone some changes, but I firmly believe that the long and fruitful cooperative relationship established between the UN and your  corporation  by  your  former  general  managers Wang  Xinshan  and Xu Jihong and their associates will be carried forward in the future.
I sincerely hope that China Translation and Publishing Corporation will flourish and proper with each passing day.

Chen Jian
Under-Secretary-General of the UN
September 19, 2003