MUMBAI: China's cartoon industry produced more than 81,000 minutes of animation this year, almost double last year's 42,700 minutes.

An official with the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) was quoted in Chinese publication Xinhua saying that the country produced more than 50,000 minutes of cartoons from January to August this year, topping last year's total output, not to mention the country's aggregate output of cartoons from 1993 to 2003.