As one of a serial of reports

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

2006. Since multimedia is an interdisciplinary research area

papers about multimedia technology are distributed on various journals. We checked about 2956 papers published on 9 Chinese journals in 2006

from which we have selected 607 related to multimedia technology and application. Then we made statistical analysis on them and the compared them with those from 2002 to 2005. Considering the new feature of multimedia technology

we make significant modification to the categories of the papers for this year in order that the new categories can reflect the situation of multimedia technology in 2006 better and match its developing trend more exactly. Looking into the statistic results we can find that researchers in China are continuously paying much attention to codec

digital watermarking

virtual reality

hypermedia

QoS

CSCW

P2P

multimodal interface

infrastructure of pervasive computing

GIS and Digital Earth and medical application

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

2006. This article can be used by researchers as a thoroughly references

and also will be helpful for people in technical planning and management.