This is the fifth in the survey series of yearly bibliographies on image engineering in China. Considering the current status of the researches on image engineering and the applications of image techniques as well as the distribution of related publications in China

near 400 research and technique references are selected from more than 2000 research papers published in a set of 15 Chinese journals

in which papers concerning image engineering are relatively concentrated. These references are classified into different categories according to their contents. An analysis and a discussion of the statistics made on the classification results are also presented. In addition

a summary about the survey series is also provided to better analyst the development of image engineering in China for the last years of 20 century This work shows a general and up-to-date picture of the progresses of image engineering in China

supplies a convenient means of literature searching for readers doing researches and/or applications in this field

and provides a useful reference for the editors of journals and potential authors of papers.