As a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the founding of Communist Party of China, the festival committee specially set up an award category to highlight domestic animation works featuring stories of the CPC. The number of these "red" comics and animated works has reached more than 130, accounting for 11 percent of all submissions.

While Cong Wei Bian Guo (Never Changed) won the special award for red revolutionary tales, Lin Hai Xue Yuan (Tracks in the Snowy Forest), a 52-episode animated series, snapped the top prize at the Golden Monkey King's General Awards.

As one of the festival's top highlights, masterclasses held on Sept 30 gathered several top animated directors, such as Su Da, head of Shanghai Animation Film Studio, and Amp Wong, director of this year's highest-grossing animated blockbuster Green Snake.