Help required regarding Chinese address translation & formatting. Many thanks

[yattaman]

Hello,

I'm sending a parcel to Sichuan (I think :-) ) this week, and unfortunately due to language issues I'm having trouble communicating with the recipient for clarification.

I've been provided with this address;

China四川省Province成都建设路1号万科金域蓝湾13栋2704

(*Name of recipient) Addressee

Postcode：610000

It would be of great help if someone can offer me some advice on how to format the address label, identify the building & flat/apartment? numbers (required by the post office), and possibly translate the address in to Pinyin?

I've tried Google Translate but to no avail.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance,

Steven

[jbradfor]

Humm.... no other takers? Well then I'll try.....

China

610000 Sichuan

Chengdu

Jianshe Road 1

Wankejin Area(?)

13 Lanwan 2704 (?)

[xiaocai]

Wanke is the name of the property developer, Jinyulanwan is the name of the project. So I think you don't really have to "translate" those, Pinyin should be fine.

So if you write it in the English way it could be:

2704/13 Wanke Jinyulanwan

1 Jianshe Lu

Chenghua Qu (this is not in the address you provide but I'd recommend you to add it in, it is the name of the suburb of the recipient) Chengdu Shi

SICHUAN 610000

People's Republic of China

[jbradfor]

Ah, that's a better translation.

Is there a way of knowing from the address that 万科 is a developer and 金域蓝湾 is a place? Or, which is what I assume, you know know from local knowledge?

[yattaman]

Hello,

Thanks everyone, I greatly appreciate your assistance.

I've managed to successfully communicate with the recipient, and with all your help dispatch the parcel.

Thanks again,

Steven

[xiaocai]

Well Wanke is indeed a big developer in China but 金域蓝湾 was a guess (plus a bit of Googling). They always like to give fancy names to their projects you know...

[jbradfor]

Interestingly, it seems the official English name of the company is "Vanke", not "Wanke":

http://www9.vanke.com/main/default.aspx

[imron]

it seems the official English name of the company is "Vanke", not "Wanke":

Someone's got at least some branding sense then.

[Hugh]

+1 to what Imron said. 'Wanke' is a bit unfortunate to British English speakers. It's like internet cafes in Taiwan: 網咖. I like that one more as it sounds a bit London accented.

[jbradfor]

Exactly why I thought it was interesting.

I'm not sure that's just British slang, I'm certainly aware of the term.