China and Japan: Animation academy · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

Ben Ng reports that A Sino-Japan animation academy was established in Beijing on 11 June (zh). According to a statistic, in year 2004, the animation industry in China made 19.5 million yuan income, the Japanese animation shared 1/5 of the market. The animation industry will be taking off in coming years (more than 10 times bigger) and the academy is a strategic move.