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http://whpenglish.com/Article_Show.asp?ArticleID=361
Among the many different aspects of China which have fascinated the West are the sheer size of its popula­tion, its remote and mysterious culture, and the in­tricate difficulty of its language. Equally, the West has always intrigued China, with its technological advancement despite its 'barbarity', its cultural diversity within a small space, and the way in which one of its languages - English - has man­aged to become the lingua franca of the world.

China originally felt no need of the West, in fact deliberately avoided all contact, for fear of cultural contamination. The bomb­ing of the Chinese embassy during the Kosovo war was a terri­ble setback in relations which had been steadily improving. However, despite this, partly because of its desire to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China has welcomed and lis­tened politely to leaders of Western countries as they gave their views on democracy and human rights. The language in which President Clinton spoke, during his visit to China, was of course English. President Jiang Zemin made his replies in Chinese. But each was backed up by a team of first-class interpreters, who made smooth communication possible.

Formal training in interpretation is comparatively recent in China. It was only in 1978 that the first programme for Transla­tors and Interpreters started at the Beijing Foreign Language Institute. The programme subsequently developed into the pres­tigious school of translation in the Beijing Foreign Studies Uni­versity.

The learning of English in China, however, has a longer history and now occupies the attention of millions of its people. How many million is hard to say, since much depends on the level of proficiency one takes as the norm (Crystal, 1985). But there are probably in the region of three hundred million actively engaged in the job of learning English.

China's reasons for learning English were well summed up twenty years ago by a team from the U.S. International Commu­nication Agency after visiting five cities and many educational institutions in China: "The Chinese view English primarily as a necessary tool which can facilitate access to modem scientific and technological advances, and secondarily as a vehicle to pro­mote commerce and understanding between the People's Re­public of China and countries where English is a major lan­guage"