Kung fu superstar Chan launches film and television academy

China's kung fu superstar Jackie Chan has the new title of dean after launching his first school, the Jackie Chan Film and Television Academy, in Wuhan, Hubei, on Wednesday.

At the launching ceremony, Chan said that he has finally completed his "lifelong dream" of establishing his own school and will pass on his years of experience on movie sets to the next generation of actors and filmmakers in China, according to the Wuhan-based newspaper Chutian Metropolis Daily.

The academy was formed under the Wuhan Institute of Design and Sciences and built on the foundation of the institute's media school.