A Study on Chinese-English Translation of the 2023 New Year Address of Chinese President Xi Jinping from the Perspective of Catford’s Translation Shifts Theory

The New Year Address of 2023 delivered by Chinese president Xi Jinping can be an important and representative way for the international community to know about today’s China. As a text containing many long complex sentences with political connotations, Year’s address challenge translators. In this passage, study on Chinese-English translation under guidance Translation Shifts Theory Catford was made, so as see how theory applied in kind text, well provide ways translators make shifts some certain compositions when doing translation, deliver proper faithful show spirits world.