As one of a serial of reports

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

2001. Since multimedia is a cross research area

papers about multimedia technology are distributed on various journals. We saw about 2 472 papers published on 9 Chinese journals in 2001

from which we selected 394 ones on multimedia technology and application

then we made analyses on them

and the classified data were compared with that of 1998

1999 and 2000. Looking into the data we can see that researchers in China pay more and more attention at digital watermarking

virtual reality

multimodal interface

multimedia data retrieval technology

distributed multimedia supporting technology

GIS and Digital Earth

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

2001. This will be convenient for researchers looking up references

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