of Chen Jingliang from 1988 to 2006, The CFARC expanded and by 1999 the CFARC expanded its vault to store 25,000 Chinese and foreign films and had 15,000 books, magazines and other written materials in their archive. In 2005, in celebration of the Archive's centenary anniversary, a new building was opened. As of 2020, the Archive was led by Sun Xianghui, who was also a Guest Professor at the MACAU University of Science and Technology. The Archive continues with film restoration efforts and has hosted numerous national conferences discussing subsections of film genres. In addition, the Archive assisted in regulating imported and exported films to and from China. The Archive currently holds historical artefacts – besides film prints – including photographs and documentaries of notable events. The Beijing Archive is separated into two sections, with one specifically for film and another section for written materials including scripts. In 2012 the archive began to screen silent, Chinese animated films with an arranged, musical accompaniment. This is notable as the practise of screening silent with live music was not common. In 2018, the journal Contemporary Animation (Dangdai Donghua) was launched by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and the China Film Art Research Center. The journal is published on a quarterly basis and is notable as the only academic journal in mainland China to focus specifically on film animation. Each issue is separated into subtopics including new research, observation, education and new ‘theory hotspots’. The film magazine, China Film Int., was established in 2020 as a collaborative project between the Archive and the non-profit organisation, the UK-China Film Collab. The magazine contains articles in English, from students, researchers and freelance journalists, about news on Chinese cinema and discursive pieces on contemporary cinema and animation. It is edited and published by the Archive. Current operations Funding Currently the Archive is expanded across two separate locations: with one archive located in Beijing and another in Xi’an, Shaanxi. The Archive is state owned and operated, with the Chinese Communist Party granting the Archive 35 million yuan annually for restoration projects and sponsoring a program which screens films in rural, Chinese communities. The Archive's director, Sun Xianghui, referred to this program in an interview in Easternkicks as ‘1 month, 1 village, 1 film’, which operates by a single employee travelling with a digital projector to set up large, outdoor screenings of recently