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About Jilin Animation Institute

Founded in June 2000, Jilin Animation Institute was approved by the Ministry of Education as a private undergraduate institute in 2008.

At present, the institute has 12 institutes and sports clubs, including institute of Animation Art, institute of Cartoon, institute of Game, institute of Design and Product, institute of Film, institute of Film Technology, institute of Virtual Reality, institute of Cultural Industry Business, institute of Civil Aviation, institute of Marxism, institute of General Education, institute of International Exchange. It offers 36 undergraduate majors including animation, cartoon, digital Media Art and Visual communication Design, covering five disciplines including art, literature, engineering, economics and management, forming six major clusters including mobile roaming, film and television, design, artificial Intelligence and virtual reality, cultural business Management and Marketing, and civil aviation. The national professional characteristics 1, national first-class undergraduate professional construction point 2, provincial features a high level disciplines, four provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction point, features high level professional 3 at the provincial level, provincial professional three brands, professional three provincial characteristics, the provincial institutions of higher learning education to cultivate outstanding engineers plan to pilot professional one, 4 provincial-level pilot programs for innovation and entrepreneurship education reform.

The institute now has more than 12,000 undergraduate students, and enrolls students from 30 provinces and autonomous regions, most of which are enrolled in the same batch with key universities or ordinary public universities. The one-time employment rate of graduates has always remained above 90%. In 2015, it was rated by the Ministry of Education as one of the “Top 50 Jobs for Graduates in China”. In 2017, it was named “The second batch of National Demonstration universities for Deepening innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Reform” by the Ministry of Education. In 2019, it was rated as the Demonstration institute of Transformation and Development in Jilin Province. In March 2020, THE institute was successfully selected into the Construction project of High-level Application-oriented institute with Characteristics in Jilin Province. In 2021, it was successfully selected as one of the first provincial demonstration modern Industrial Institute construction projects in Jilin Province. Centering on the development of cultural and creative industry and civil aviation industry of Jilin Province, the institute adheres to the institute motto of “Self-esteem, Self-improvement, Innovation and Creation” and adheres to the three institute-running characteristics of “open internationalization, integration of academic research and production, high-tech of creative products”. Spirit of “responsibility, responsible for parents and for students is responsible for industry, for the social responsibility, responsible for the national” five to take charge of the institute mission, comprehensively deepen “social function, the global vision, entrepreneurial thinking, market consciousness, the industrial system, the commercial value of” six development strategy, and constantly promote the institute development, healthy development, connotation and characteristic development, It has provided more than 40,000 high-quality applied talents for the state and local governments.

The institute constantly change innovation personnel training mode, around the institute localization “and research production integration”, implement the strategy of “precise talent training” and “open project scheme”, for cultural creative industry chain, dynamic roaming around, film and television, design class, virtual reality and artificial intelligence, business management and brand marketing and so on five big system, comprehensive build production docking practice teaching platform. Industrial clusters drive the construction of professional groups, leading the teaching reform with high-end industrial projects, introducing high-end talents from both domestic and foreign markets, and comprehensively cultivating applied talents with high professional quality, strong practical ability, deep cultural deposits and high artistic accomplishment.

The institute improve technology innovation supporting function, comprehensively promote education, culture, art, technology, the organic integration of the market, with “modern animation technology Institutes and universities in jilin province engineering research center”, “games and interactive media technology Institutes and universities in jilin province engineering research center”, “jilin province demonstration base” industry-institute-institute “cooperation”, “jilin animation culture research base”, 21 universities and enterprises to create jilin Province animation industry technology innovation strategic alliance. The institute has undertaken more than 50 national and provincial scientific research projects, such as the Science and Technology Support Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Talent Training Program funded by the National Art Fund. Published more than 100 SCI, EI, CSSCI, Peking institute core retrieval papers and national papers; Obtained 16 patents; Participated in the development of 10 industry standards; Jilin Provincial Science and technology award 1 first prize, 2 third prize.

The institute has been accelerating the process of international education, and has hosted more than 30 summits such as “China • Jilin International Cartoon And Game Forum”, “China Cultural Industry Summit”, “Sino-US Cartoon Summit”, and “Sino-French Cultural Spring Exchange Season”. More than 1000 well-known experts and scholars from home and abroad, foreign ambassadors, ministers, counsellors and consuls general have been invited to the institute for exchange and teaching. We have invited nearly 500 high-level visiting professors and industry experts from home and abroad, and regularly set up lecture halls and studios in the institute to enhance the level of internationalization of the institute.

Working for one of the leading enterprises in the era of institute innovation entrepreneurship to build “originality, silicon valley startups in silicon valley” as the strategic goals, constantly deepen the “innovation to create entrepreneurship” four “core culture, in the third session of Chinese Institute students’ innovative undertaking” Internet + “contest finals, won two gold medal at a stroke, among the golden project of 34 items of the nation’s top, realize the new breakthrough. We will give full play to the advantages of the institute’s creative resources and talent resources, rely on the innovation and entrepreneurship incubation platform, build a comprehensive entrepreneurial culture, improve the entrepreneurial system, provide all-round support for students to start their own businesses in institute, and vigorously improve the ability of teachers and students to innovate, start their own businesses, practice and connect with the market. We will deepen the “social function”, encourage students, alumni, families and society to “start their own businesses”, and build a pattern of joint entrepreneurship and integrated development. In 2018, it was named “National institute with Typical Experience in Innovation and Entrepreneurship” by the Ministry of Education.

The works of our teachers and students have won many awards in exhibitions and competitions at home and abroad. They have won the “Five One Project Award” of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and the “Chinese Culture and Art Government Award” of the Ministry of Culture. Changbai mountain in jilin province “literary award, the Chinese animation industry’s top awards” monkey award, Shanghai film festival “magnolia award”, the 14th the Japanese city of Hiroshima international animation festival “best movie award”, “China creative design yearbook gold prize”, industrial design international top prize Germany “red dot award nomination, gold medal of China international AD festival, China’s highest award for campus theater festival” excellent dramas “Award”, China Game Outstanding Producer and best Creative Award, China Institute Students online Photography Contest first prize, etc., constantly launched students, works “two products”, to create “JIDONG Production”.

The institute has been awarded as “National Animation Teaching and Research Base”, “National Animation Industry Base”, “National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base”, and “National institute Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project implementation Unit”. In 2018, the institute was awarded the “Best Animation Education Institution” by the Chinese Government of Culture and Art. It was evaluated by the evaluation experts of the Ministry of Education as “a institute with outstanding ideas, characteristics and full of potential, and a successful example of private universities in China”.

Over the years, the development of the institute has received great care from the leaders of the Party and the state. Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Li Changchun, Liu Yunshan, Liu Yandong and other leaders have visited the institute one after another, giving high praise and full recognition to the characteristics and achievements of the institute. In the future, the institute will continue to deepen the educational characteristics of “integration of study, research and production”, promote the connotation of development, strengthen the core competitiveness, and strive to build “distinctive characteristics, domestic first-class, internationally famous institute for 100 years”!