Maxim Morkovkin is an experienced translator, blogger and public speaker. He has been deeply involved with Chinese-Russian and Chinese-English translation since 2010 and has lived and worked in China for seven years. Maxim previously worked at Wuhan Optics Valley BeiDou Holding Group Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Kingnet Technologies Co., Ltd. He has published articles, taught classes and spoken at conferences on a wide variety of Chinese-language related topics. He also acts as the Chinese language expert at different Russian radio stations. Maxim has a BS degree in Chinese language and an MS degree in business administration from Central China Normal University. He is also active in the field of translation automation tools and is focused on building relationships between SmartCAT and Chinese language service providers. In his free time, Maxim travels and practices martial arts. His life motto is: “Don’t be afraid to fail, be afraid not to try.”