China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association
China International Cultural Association
Hangzhou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries
China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts
Executive Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival

Notice on
The Ninth “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition

The Ninth “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition held by China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association, China International Cultural Association, Hangzhou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts and Executive Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival, undertaken by Hangzhou Youth & Children’s Center, and co-undertaken by Hangzhou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Sina (Zhejiang) and Humorist comics is now launched. The relevant matters of the competition are as follows:

I. Purpose:
Cartoon as a public cultural form is favored by youth and children by virtue of its various forms, vivid images, humor and proximity to life. The China International Youth and Children’s Cartoon Competition invites youth and children to contribute their cartoon works based on the real life, which sparkplug civilized practices and describe the new outlook of social life. Meanwhile, it aims to popularize cartoon education among the youth and children, thus achieving the goal of mutual communication, co-development and gradual improvement.

II. Overview:
The “Tianyan Cup” Cartoon Competition has been successfully held for 8 times since 2006 attracted more than 30,000 pieces of entered comics for three consecutive terms with a total of 8 sets and 138,000 copies of collected works and participants coming from five continents and 41 countries and regions participated in the competition. The Competition is widely accepted and loved by the young. Each year, the Competition will work out themes from several perspectives such as traditional Chinese zodiac culture, environment protection, vision of future to stimulate the creation and imagination and promote the originality. The competition has successively appointed Han Meilin, Phil•Ye (America), Pang Bangben (Korea), Zhu Deyong, Huang Yulang, Lu Haiyan, Chen Zhihua and other famous experts to be judges.
So far, the competition has grown into an active project brand with large scale of participation and high degree of internalization in China International Animation Festivals, one of the influential international cultural activities for children in Hangzhou and a large platform for the international children’s cultural exchange. 

III. Steps:
1. Establish the Organizing Committee and Judge Panel in October 2013. The organizing Committee is established by the sponsor and undertaker of the Competition. Experts from home and abroad will be invited as judges.
2. In early November 2013, issue Notice and Contribution Invitation through China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association, China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts, Hangzhou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Humorist, Wisdom and Imagination and internet.
3. Deadline for contribution is March 20, 2014.
4. From late March to late April 2014, initial evaluation and final evaluation of works will be conducted. Excellent works will be exhibited and awarded and printed out as collection afterwards. (Exhibition and award will be further noticed).
5. In early April 2014, perform awarding and exhibition according to the China International Cartoon and Animation Festival.
6. In the end of June 2013, certificate and collection of works for the competition will be mailed. 
 
IV. Explanation 
1. The competition will not charge for entry fees in any form.
2. Organizing prize will be awarded based on quantity and award-winning conditions of contribution. 
3. Refer to Appendix for Contribution Invitation of the Competition.

China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association
China International Culture Association
China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts
Executive Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival

Appendix 1:

Notice on the Ninth “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition

I. Competition Name:
The Ninth “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition

II. Host
Organizing Committee of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival
China National Youth and Children’s Palace Association
China International Culture Association
China Association for Children’s Plastic Arts

III. Undertaker:
Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Centre

IV. Co-undertaker:
Hangzhou Municipal People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries
Sina (Zhejiang)
Humorist Comics

V. Sponsor:
Zhejiang Zhongnan Group Animation Co., Ltd.

VI. Participants and Scope 
Any youth or child under 18 (born after March 20, 1996) has the right to participate in the competition. Individuals or groups are welcomed.

VII. Themes (choose one)
1. Story of Horse
2. Dream
3. “Return to” the Silk Road
4. Getting hotter…

VIII. Rules
1. Participants are divided into Junior Group (middle school students) and Children Group (primary school students and preschool children).
2. Participating works shall be original, instead of modification, reproduction or copy from others. They shall boast entire copyright. In case of violation, the participation qualification of such works will be cancelled.
3. Each participant is allowed to contribute 1 piece of works.
4. The competition will not charge any participation fees.

IX. Requirements
1. Original works with healthy and positive content should be sent. The patterns of manifestation are not limited. Paper of single, four and multiple cartoon strips should not be smaller than 20×30cm or bigger than 55×40cm. No framing is needed. Cartoon books should be no more than 16 pages with a size bigger than 15×20cm and smaller than 30×40cm, and should be binded together in book form. Personalized bookbinding and layout are encouraged.
2. Each work will be stuck on the bottom right corner a form including nationality, name, sex, date of birth and group to attend (Middle School Group or Primary School Group), name of school, address, post code, telephone number, instructor, title and brief introduction to works, etc. Visit the official website of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival http://www.cicaf.com and the website of Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center http://www.hzqsn.com to download the forms of Registration Table of the Participating Works and Statistics Table of Group Participation.

X. Awards:
1. Top Grade Prize will be awarded to 10 contestants (RMB 1,000 each).
2. Gold Prize, Silver Prize, Bronze Prize and Merit Prize will be awarded for 1%, 1.5%,
2.5% and 5% participants of total contribution works respectively. 
3. Excellent Organizer Award and Excellent Tutor Prize are also provided.
4. Excellent Instructive Award is given to the teachers of winners of Top Grade Prize and Gold Prize as well as the teachers of the group winning the Origination Award.
5. Excellent works winning prizes will be included in the Collection. Each award winner will be awarded with certificate and one Collection.
6. Winners of Top Grade Prize and Gold Prize will award a set of Wisdom and Imagination published in the first half year of 2014.

XI. Works Exhibition
Excellent works will be displayed in professional art exhibitions or on the web, and names of all prize winners will be announced on the websites (websites of China International Cartoon and Animation Festival and Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center). Also, some of them will be published in magazines such as Master of Humor and Wisdom and Imagination.

XII. Deadline
March 20th, 2014 (according to the date of stamp)

XIII. Agreement
No works will be returned back. The authors agree to transfer the publishing right, exhibition right and property right of the works to the Host. All the participants are deemed to agree with the rules above.

XIV. Works Shall be Mailed to 
Tianyan Cup Cartoon Competition Office, Art Department of Hangzhou Youth and Children’s Center (No. 22, Zhaoqingsili Street, Xihu District, Hangzhou)
Zhejiang Province
China
Post Code: 310007     
Addressee: Wang Zhan, Sun Jingnan  
Telephone: 0086-0571-85821035 (except for Monday and Tuesday)
Fax: 0086-0571-85821012

* Registration Table of the Participating Works in the Ninth “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition.DOC

* Statistics Table of Group Participation in the Ninth “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition.doc

Organizing Committee of the Ninth “Tianyan Cup” China International Children’s Cartoon Competition
October 25, 2013