Chinese Translator and Interpreter in Tbilisi

Documents between Georgia and China after the 2023 apostille accession

Until November 2023, a Georgian document for use in mainland China had to be certified by the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then legalized at the Chinese Embassy in Tbilisi, and a Chinese document for Georgia had to go through the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a provincial foreign affairs office and then the Georgian embassy in Beijing. Since China's accession to the Hague Apostille Convention took effect, both directions use an apostille: Georgian documents are apostilled at the Public Service Development Agency, and Chinese documents are apostilled by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs or authorized provincial offices. Hong Kong and Macau have used apostilles for much longer under their own arrangements.

Chinese authorities generally require the Chinese translation of a foreign document to be done by a licensed translation company in China or to be notarized by a Chinese notary, so Georgian documents for a Chinese registry, court or civil affairs bureau often need translation in China; Chinese universities, employers and many business counterparts accept our notarized Chinese translation with an apostilled original. Georgian authorities require Chinese documents to be translated into Georgian and notarized in Georgia, which is our core work in this pair. We tell you which route applies before you order.

Chinese companies, projects and workers in Georgia

Chinese state and private contractors and investors are active in Georgian road, tunnel, rail, port, hydropower, wind and manufacturing projects, and they need corporate and personal documents in Georgian: the business licence (营业执照), articles of association, board resolutions, powers of attorney and legal representative identification for registering a Georgian company or branch at the Public Registry and opening bank accounts; passports, diplomas, work experience certificates and criminal record certificates for work permits and residence permits for Chinese engineers, managers and skilled workers; and contract, tender and technical documentation for the projects themselves. All corporate and personal documents are apostilled in China and translated into Georgian with notarization in Tbilisi.

Project work generates continuous translation: employer's requirements and contract schedules, design submissions, method statements, inspection and test plans, correspondence with Georgian authorities and the Roads Department, HSE documentation, and meeting minutes, between Chinese, Georgian and English. We set up a project glossary and a translation memory so that terminology stays consistent for the life of the project, and we provide interpreters on site, described below.

Georgian export, business and study documents for China

Georgian wine is the best-known export to China, joined by mineral water, honey, hazelnuts, tea and agricultural products, and exporters need Chinese labels, product descriptions, certificates of origin, quality and phytosanitary certificates, company profiles and websites in Simplified Chinese, along with distribution contracts and correspondence with Chinese importers, customs brokers and e-commerce platforms. Georgian companies bidding for Chinese-financed projects or seeking Chinese investment need corporate extracts, financial statements and presentations in Chinese. We translate these with native Chinese translators and a marketing editor for consumer-facing material, and we advise on Chinese naming of Georgian brands where a transliteration decision matters.

Georgian students applying to Chinese universities, including through Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) and Confucius Institute programs, need school certificates, diplomas, transcripts, medical examination forms, criminal record certificates and recommendation letters in Chinese or English; universities generally accept our notarized translations with an apostille on the original. Georgian citizens marrying Chinese nationals, registering children or handling inheritance in China need civil documents translated and, for use at Chinese civil affairs bureaus, usually translated or re-certified in China.

Simplified and Traditional characters, names and numbers

Mainland China and Singapore use Simplified Chinese; Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan use Traditional Chinese, with regional vocabulary differences. We ask where the document is going and translate accordingly, and we do not convert mechanically between the two. Chinese names are rendered into Georgian from the pinyin in the passport, with the family name kept first as in the passport, since Georgian offices otherwise reverse them; Georgian names into Chinese are transliterated with standard characters and kept identical across a company's or a family's documents, with the client's existing Chinese rendering used where one already exists on a visa or a business card. Chinese ID numbers, unified social credit codes and dates in the Chinese format are checked digit by digit, and seals (公章) are described in the translation, since Georgian officers look for a signature where a Chinese document has a seal.

Mandarin interpreters and quality

Our Mandarin interpreters work at business negotiations and contract signings, on construction, tunnel and energy sites during supervision, commissioning and safety briefings, at factory acceptance tests, at notarial signings for Chinese parties (required by law when a signatory does not understand Georgian), at the Public Registry and banks, at government and municipal meetings with Chinese delegations, at universities, and at conferences and trade events in consecutive and simultaneous mode. Interpreters for site work know construction and engineering vocabulary and work in the regions with travel included. Remote interpretation is available for calls with Chinese head offices, suppliers, universities and authorities. Modes and rates are on our interpretation page.

Translations into Chinese are done by native Chinese translators and reviewed by a second linguist; Chinese documents into Georgian are translated in full, including seals, certifications and the apostille, by translators who work with Chinese administrative and corporate documents daily. Standard documents are usually ready within one working day once the original is available for the notarized copy; corporate and project packages are quoted by volume with a firm date.

What to send for a Chinese translation

Send every page including seals, certifications and the apostille, tell us the institution in Georgia or China and whether Simplified or Traditional characters are needed, and send the passport data page of every person named so that pinyin and Georgian renderings match. For corporate documents, send the exact Georgian registration name and number if the company is already registered. For projects, tell us whether ongoing support with a glossary is needed.