New age of animation

An overnight star after the box-office success of Ne Zha, Yang Yu now aims to direct an even better movie, Xu Fan reports.

After a road show across 16 cities over 23 days, the director of animation films, Yang Yu, known better by his online nickname Jiaozi, has returned to Chengdu, Sichuan province, where he lives.

Thanks to Ne Zha, the phenomenal hit that has hopped past Disney's Zootopia to become the all-time highest-grossing animation film in China, Yang has risen to fame overnight.