Prime Minister Encourages Chinese Animation

China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao last month made a point by complaining that his grandson watches Ultraman (Japanese entertainment) instead of homegrown Chinese cartoons. Wen then encouraged Chinese animators to “play a leading role in bringing Chinese culture to the world … let Chinese children watch more of their own history and its own country’s animation.”

According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China’s animation industry increased its animation production by 66% from 2007 to 2008. But Wang Jianhua, vice president of the China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association admits that there’s still a wide gap in quality between original Chinese created animation and cartoons originating from America, Japan, and South Korea.

Source: Variety

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