Since opening in 2007, the animation and advertising bases at Yantai Cultural Creative Industry Park are now home to more than 300 companies. Its 2015 output value reached 650 million yuan ($99 million) with profit and tax of 80 million yuan.

The park has pushed for extensive cooperation with South Korea in film and animation production, advertising and digital broadcasting.

In May of 2016, Yantai-Bucheon Cultural Creative Zone and China-ROK Animation Museum were inaugurated at the park.

A journalist draws a cartoon image on a high-tech touchscreen at the China-ROK Animation Museum of Yantai, Shandong province. [Photo by Wang Qian/chinadaily.com.cn]