A screen grab from Chinese animated film Ne Zha [Photo/Mtime]

Fine production

In addition to the rich content, Ne Zha's fine production is another aspect that makes Chinese animation lovers thrilled and proud, with many claiming it can rival those produced by Hollywood studios like Disney and Pixar.

It took the perfectionism-driven director two years to revise and refine the script, resulting in as many as 66 versions of the Ne Zha script.

As the most complex animated production ever made in China, Ne Zha has 1,318 special effects shots, accounting for 80 percent of the film's total shots.

To realize the film's fairy tale setting, the Dragon King's mysterious dungeon, and a breathtaking fight between fire and ice, more than 1,600 animators from 20 special effects studios worked around the clock for three years.

It took the team about three months to test the major scenes at the end of the film, the director said.

Rich content, inspiring message, and spectacular production, domestic animation fans cheered that they have every reason to be proud of Ne Zha.

Yang Xiaoyu contributed to this story.