本文是中国多媒体技术研究与应用的年度文献综述之六。查阅了2003年9种核心刊物的3143篇文章，并从中选取了436篇与多媒体技术相关的文章进行分类统计，指出了2003年中国多媒体技术发展的现状。在此基础之上，结合前4年的统计结果，将近5年的多媒体技术文献统计结果做了比较，从而清楚地看到多媒体技术，尤其是热点技术的发展过程和发展趋势。本文不仅给从事多媒体技术研究与应用的人员提供了一个很好的文献资料的索引，也给论文作者和刊物编辑一个好的参考。

As one of a serial of reports, this paper is a survey on multimedia researches and applications in China, 2003. Since multimedia is a cross research area, papers about multimedia technology are distributed on various journals. We checked about 3 143 papers published on 9 Chinese journals in 2003, from which we have selected 436 on multimedia technology and application. Then we made analysis on these selected papers and the statistics were compared with those from 1999 to 2002. From the results we can find that researchers in China pay more and more attention to 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, 2003. This article will provide the researchers looking up references with great convenience, and also will be helpful to editors compiling journals and for authors contributing papers.