该文是1998年中国多媒体技术研究与应用的综述，目前我国多媒体技术研究应用的论文分布在多种学术期刊上，作者查阅了1998年发表在国内12种期刊上的2220篇文章，从中选取了334篇多媒体技术研究与应用方面的论文，并对这些论文进行了分类统计和分析。

This paper is a review on multimedia researches and applications in China, 1998. Papers about multimedia technology are distributed on various journals. We saw about 2220 papers published on 12 Chinese journals in 1998, from which we selected 334 ones on multimedia technology and made analyses on them. We present here an overview on the progress in multimedia technology in China, 1998. This will be convenient for researchers looking up reference, and helpful for editors compiling journals and for authors contributing papers.