On Nov.30th, 2012, the Opening Ceremony of International Comic & Animation Convention (Beijing 2012) (ICAC) jointly sponsored by Ministry of Culture of China, People’s Government of Beijing and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)，undertaken by China Wisdom Engineering Association, Time Horizon International Culture (Beijing) Co.,Ltd and Beijing Golden-Crab Communications Co., Ltd. was held at Beijing Xiedao International Conference and Exhibition Center.

Ismail Amat, the vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of National People’s Congress, Li Meng, the vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Dong Wei, Vice Minister of Culture, Zhang Wenhua, the party secretary of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture, Han Guangming, the deputy secretary-general of the CPAFFC were present.

ICAC is the largest-sized comic and animation-themed event in Beijing which serves for domestic and foreign enterprises and practitioners of the animation industry, as well as anime fans, and aiming at being the first-class domestically, and renowned internationally animation themed activity with government’s support and our specialized, brand-oriented and internationalized effort.

Hundreds of animation enterprises from US, Japan, France and R.O. Korea are invited to the convention. ICAC cooperates with the most authoritative and effective professional awards institution “Chinese Institute Awards” to collect and award the cartoon works, cartoon short movies of the cartoon institutes of the whole country and set up the Chinese cosplay performance awards for the first time.