Recently, CAFA Global (http://global.cafa.edu.cn), the international website of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, was officially launched after more than a year of research, planning, development and testing. This website is the first online portalof the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) dedicated to international communication. Global Tone Communication Technology Co., Ltd. (GTCOM), as CAFA’s strategic partner for international communication capacity building, provided multilingual support for CAFA’s international communication efforts based on its technological advantages in machine translation, big data and artificial intelligence.

GTCOM made full use of its technological advantages in multilingual machine translation and artificial intelligence to better serve CAFA’s endeavor of building a platform for communication with art academies and institutions around the world. The website has first launched its English version and more versions in other languages will be delivered in the future according to the demand of CAFA’s international communication. Taking CAFA Global as a starting point, the two parties will carry out R&D in AI-enabled translation in the field of art. In-depth cooperation will also be launched to promote the international communication of Chinese art and culture, the opening up of Chinese artistic resources, and the international development of China’s art industry, so as to contribute to the quality and efficiency of the international communication capacity building of China’s culture and art circles. The two will also join hands leveraging the advantages of artificial intelligence and machine translation technologies to form a strategic system for brand building in the international arena in a new era, create multilingual standard art terminologies, and put in place an international art big data research and application system. Backed by the strategic partnership between the two and empowered by technological innovations,GTCOM and CAFA will accelerate cultural integration, deepen cooperation, follow the rules of communication, fully pool resources across different fields, and work hand in hand to achieve new breakthroughs in international communication.

CAFA Global includes sixsections:Study, Faculty, News& Events, Research, Cooperation, and About Us. It also features the Culture Focuscolumn dedicated to the communication of Chinese culture.Thepage designcenters on a horizontal axis to divide the space by colorand thesectionsarestructured in a waterfall modeland ordered by time to direct viewers’ attention to the content. In addition to a desktop version, the website also has mobile versions for those who visit via cell phone or tablet. Video clips on the website all have links to mainstream international video sites for the convenience of overseas users.