As one of a serial of reports

this paper is a survey on multimedia researches and applications in China

1999. Since multimedia is a cross research area

papers about multimedia technology are distributed on various journals. We saw about 2 764 papers published on 11 Chinese journals in 1999

from which we selected 369 ones on multimedia technology and made analyses on them

and the classified data were compared with which of last year. Looking into the data we can see that researchers in China pay more and more attention at human computer interaction

multimedia data retrieval technology and distributed multimedia supporting technology

which are also the international evolution trends in a quite long period. We present here an overview on the progress in multimedia technology in China

1999. This will be convenient for researchers looking up reference

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