As one of a serial of reports

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

2000. Since multimedia is a cross research area

papers about multimedia technology are distributed on various journals. We saw about 4 633 papers published on 14 Chinese journals in 2000

from which we selected 521 ones on multimedia technology and application

then we made analysis on them

and the classified data were compared with which of 1998 and 1999. Looking into the data we can see that researchers in China pay more and more attention to human computer interaction

multimodal interface

digital watermarking

virtual reality

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

2000. This will be convenient for researchers looking up references

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