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Youzhi He, born in 1922, he is China’s famous comic artist lives in Ningbo and Shanghai from the cradle, engaged in the creative art in 1950s. He became famous in 1960s, served as a visiting professor of China Central Academy of Fine Arts for 7 years. Picture storytelling comic books used be deeply impressive for several generations. Youzhi He’s ‘local flavor’ of his art work is even more memorable. His lengthy classic artwork ‘Tremendous Changes of the town’ in the 1960s was known as ‘the epoch-making representative comic works in the history of China’. In his creative career of more than 501 years, ‘The Battle in the Train’, ‘District Town of Chaoyanggou’, ‘Fifteen Strings of Cash’ and ‘Xiao Erhei’s marriage’ and the other artworks subsequently won the national art awards.he created a sensation art work at the age of 81 and displayed in the Shanghai Art Fair in 2001, line drawing monumental works ‘Shenjiang Fengqinglu’, which was comprised of bigger paintings of ‘Variety of life in small street’, loafer and the 10 smaller paintings such as ‘Waiter’ ‘Scalper’ ‘Congregational Assembly’ recorded the lifestyle of Shanghai in the 20th century. Mr. Feng Qiyong called it the ‘Upper River during the Festival of Asia’.