Category: Industry Insights

On June 18 2026, Meiyingyuan (Shanghai Animation Space) officially opened at No. 618 Wanhangdu Road, Jing’an District, Shanghai. The site was the former home of Shanghai Animation Film Studio, widely recognized as the birthplace of Chinese animation. Iconic works such as Havoc in Heaven, Nezha Conquers the Dragon King and Tadpoles Looking for Their Mother were created here, giving rise[…..] […]

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On July 22 2026, Chongbai Dreamery, China’s first comprehensive ACG complex centred on Chinese manhua content, event operations and user experience, officially opened in Chongqing’s Guanyinqiao business district. Renovated from the former Jiangbei Department Store of Chongbai, the site boasts a total construction area of 20 000 sq.m with 11 000 sq.m of operational space. Moving away from conventional departmentstore logic[…..] […]

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In August 2026, Creative Hungary, Hungary’s national official institution for the development of creative industries, led domestic Hungarian game enterprises to make their debut at the B2B business zone of gamescom, the world’s premier global gaming exhibition in Cologne, Germany. For the first time in Hungary’s gaming industry history, local game studios participated in the[…..] […]

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Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has published its subscriberonly white paper China’s Strategic Advance in Robotics and Automation. The report confirms China’s worldleading position in robotics and automation. China stands as a key global testing ground and industrial hub for embodied intelligence, with unmatched scale of deployed industrial robots and a large domestic humanoidrobot developer ecosystem,[…..] […]

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  A special economic assessment commissioned by Los Angeles County and conducted by CVL Economics warns that the controversial $111billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance could eliminate 4,500 direct filmandtelevision production jobs across Los Angeles County within three years upon deal closure. When rippleeffect positions across the broader supply chain are counted, as many[…..] […]

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Chinese game and entertainment firm Perfect World has released its 2026 interim financial report. The company recorded operating revenue of RMB 2.751 billion and a net loss attributable to shareholders of RMB 118 million for the first halfyear. The shortterm book loss stems mainly from accounting timing mismatch between heavy launchphase expenses for flagship title[…..] […]

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EU Welcomes Apple’s Revised App Store Rules While Epic Games Denounces New “Junk Fees”, Reshaping EU Mobile App Ecosystem Apple unveiled comprehensive revisions to its App Store business terms for the European Union to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and resolve longrunning regulatory disputes with the European Commission. The updated rules will take[…..] […]

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 Diverse Slate Expands Creative Boundaries for Chinese Animation Oriental Martial Academy (Dongda Gao Wu Xueyuan), flagship original title under Youku Animation’s “Starry Ocean” initiative, premieres exclusively on Youku today. Ahead of launch, the title accumulated over 2.3 million preregistrations, claiming No. 1 on both the 2026 original donghua presave chart and Youku’s all-time newseries preregistration chart. It[…..] […]

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As generativeAI technologies gain widespread adoption in animation and shortvideo sectors, the AI mandrama segment has experienced explosive growth. Industry analysts project China’s AI mandrama market size will reach RMB 24.36 billion in 2026. While AI drastically cuts production costs and lead times, copyright conflicts over trainingdata sourcing, ownership of AIgenerated outputs and commercial exploitation[…..] […]

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