Prepare product fields, approved Chinese names and a review-ready content export. See the Decathlon French-to-Chinese website project.
View the file review example ↓View references (1) ↓Start with product fields, not a list of URLs
Website translation into Chinese starts with a stable product-content set: the product ID, source text, field name and intended page position. A list of public URLs helps explain context, but it may not capture hidden variants, repeated descriptions or the exact revision to translate.
Export the fields you need, such as product names, feature descriptions, specification labels and navigation text. Mark non-translatable SKU codes and separate editorial copy from factual product attributes. Ask the product owner to identify unsupported or unclear source statements before translation.
From reading to a project
Map one product field to the Chinese page
File handover example · self-created
- Product / field
- DEMO-P01 · short_description
- French source
- Poche intérieure zippée.
- Chinese draft
- 带拉链的内袋。
- Check with the owner
- Confirm product variant, image context and field length before release.
Review status: questions to confirm
Stable keys
Keep the product ID and source field beside the Chinese content.
Approved naming
Resolve product-family names and variant wording before reuse.
Website handover
Confirm who imports, previews and publishes the approved text.
Related published experience
DecathlonFrench → Chinese
French-to-Chinese translation of website product content for the China market.
Decathlon supports French-to-Chinese website product-content experience. The fictional product field above is not from that project.
Send the French content export, product identifiers, approved names, page context, desired Chinese script and handover format.
Make Chinese names and variants reviewable
Use one approved Chinese name for each product family and keep the product identifier beside it. A naming decision made on a category page should be available to the reviewer checking the individual product page.
Record where wording may differ: a short tile label, a full description and a search label can have different length limits. Define Simplified or Traditional Chinese and the target audience rather than treating all Chinese readers as a single market.
Separate text delivery from website implementation
Agree whether you need a bilingual spreadsheet, translated resource files or an import-ready content export. Preserve the original keys so the website team can map each Chinese field back to its source. Translation delivery does not by itself publish or test a website.
If preview review is required, identify the staging pages, review owner and acceptance checks. Include text truncation, missing variants, mixed-language labels and the link between images and product descriptions in that scope.
Use the Decathlon record for the right comparison
The Decathlon case documents French website product content translated into Chinese for the China market. It is direct evidence for that content and language scope; it does not establish a particular CMS implementation or product-page volume.
For a comparable brief, start with the French-to-Chinese route and the Chinese localization service brief. Other source languages should be selected from the Chinese translation language overview.
Questions
Are website URLs enough for a Chinese product-content quote?
Should product model numbers be translated?
Does the translation include publishing the Chinese pages?
Sources
- Published project scope: DecathlonFirst-party project record; the file-review guidance and illustrative sheet are editorial, not customer documents.