As one of a serial of reports

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

2002. Since multimedia is a cross research area

papers about multimedia technology are distributed on various journals. We retrieved about 2761 papers published on 9 Chinese journals in 2002

from which we selected 464 ones on multimedia technologies and applications

then we made analyses on them

and the classified data were compared with that of 1998

1999

2000 and 2001. 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

quality of service

computer supported cooperative work

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

2002. This will be convenient for researchers looking up references

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