This paper is a review on multimedia researches and applications in China

1998. Papers about multimedia technology are distributed on various journals. We saw about 2220 papers published on 12 Chinese journals in 1998

from which we selected 334 ones on multimedia technology and made analyses on them. We present here an overview on the progress in multimedia technology in China

1998. This will be convenient for researchers looking up reference

and helpful for editors compiling journals and for authors contributing papers.