New achievements have been constantly emerging in various sub-fields of Chinese animation academic research, but there is still a lack of breakthrough in the research paradigm, and a lack of systematic knowledge of animation art. The researches on Chinese animation by western scholars have also brought judgmental and theoretical bias. In 2020, one of the major art projects of National Social Science Foundation of China “Innovative Research on Chinese Animation Art Knowledge System in the New Era” will take the Party??s innovation theory as the key link, historical tradition as the source, the spirit of the times as the vane, the new technology context as the extension, and personnel training as the nourishment, and the five sub-projects will construct a complete and innovative knowledge system for Chinese animation.