{"id":15799,"date":"2009-05-11T13:55:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T17:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=15799"},"modified":"2009-05-11T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T18:04:19","slug":"prime-minister-encourages-chinese-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/prime-minister-encourages-chinese-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Encourages Chinese Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;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 &#8220;play a leading role in bringing Chinese culture to the world &#8230; let Chinese children watch more of their own history and its own country&#8217;s animation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China&#8217;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&#8217;s still a wide gap in quality between original Chinese created animation and cartoons originating from America, Japan, and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118003408.html?categoryid=2523&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article provided by Daniel Zelter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;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 &#8220;play a leading role in bringing Chinese culture to the world &#8230; let Chinese children watch more of their own history and its own country&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15815,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions\/15815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}