The Top 10 of China's most favorite "home-made"cartoons were
announced yesterday at the conclusion of the First Summit Forum on
the China Animation Industry's Development and Youth's Healthy
Growing Up.
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Black Cat Detective
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The ten cartoons include Century Sonny, Tortoise
Hanba's Stories, Black Cat Detective, SkyEye, Lao
Mountain Taoist, Nezha Conquers the Dragon King,
Wanderings Of Sanmao, Zhang Ga the Soldier Boy,
The Blue Mouse and the Big-Faced Cat and 3000 Whys of
Blue Cat. They were voted on by nearly 300,000 netizens since
the poll began on September 21. In total 178 China-produced
cartoons were nominated.
The first summit forum was held in Qingdao, Shandong Province from November 4 to 5,
sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of
China, the Information Office of the State Council, the Ministry of
Culture, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Security,
Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Information
Industry, General Administration of Press and Publication, the
State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the State
General Administration of Sport, Care-About-Next-Generation
Committee and Qingdao municipal government and organized by China
Youth Association For Network Development.
Several cartoonists from the United States, Japan, South Korea,
France and China's Hong Kong and Taiwan regions, along with youth
and cultural organizations and representatives from animation
enterprises attended the event.
Lu Yongzheng, a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party
of China Central Committee, stressed at the opening ceremony on
November 3 that people in the industry should present healthy
animation productions to teenagers and asked people to create a
healthy cyberspace for Chinese youth. A joint manifesto on the
industry's development and youngsters growing up in a healthy way
was released later. Shadow puppet plays and cartoon art exhibitions
were also held during the two-day event.
Experts who participated in the summit explained that among
cartoon readers 11 percent were under 13, 59 percent between 14 to
17 year-olds and 30 percent were over 18. They estimated there were
500 million people who could be identified as cartoon consumers.
However, according to the research, among Chinese youngsters only
11 percent said their favorite cartoons were "home-made" (including
those produced in Hong Kong and Taiwan), 60 percent were from Japan
while 29 percent from the United States and Europe.
(China.org.cn by Zhang Rui November 6, 2006)