Ding Xian Yan

In 1951 he is admitted in the Suzhou Movie School Animation Section, and in 1953 he graduated in the Beijing Central Movie School Animation Section. Later he enters in the Shanghai Fine Arts Motion Picture Studio and in 1960 debuted as animation director with the awarded short film "The Small Tadpole Looks for his Mother". In 1964 co-directed the last part of the film "Da no tien gu" ("Uproar in Heaven", 1961-65), the first color animation film in China, directed by Wan Lai-Ming. In 1979 he co-directed with Wang Shu-Shen and A Da (Xu Jingda) the first Chinese animation film made in panoramic screen, "Nezha Conquers the Dragon King".