From July 30 to August 1, 2026, China Multimedia 2026 (ChinaMM 2026) was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. The conference was sponsored by the China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG) and the China Computer Federation (CCF), organized by the CSIG Technical Committee on Multimedia and the CCF Technical Committee on Multimedia Technology, jointly hosted by Taiyuan University of Technology, and co-organized by North University of China and Taiyuan University of Science and Technology. The conference brought together experts, scholars, and industry representatives in multimedia. Through keynote speeches, special forums, paper presentations, and technology demonstrations, participants shared frontier research achievements and industry trends, promoting academic exchange, industrial cooperation, and closer integration of industry, academia, and research. Professor Yun Zhang and master's student Yong You attended the conference.
Held annually since 2017, China Multimedia provides academia and industry with a platform for frontier technology updates, diverse academic exchange, and forward-looking promotion of industrial technologies. It promotes scholarly exchange, industrial collaboration, and coordinated development among industry, academia, and research, while advancing multimedia research and applications in China. The 2026 conference marked the tenth anniversary of China Multimedia. Academician Wen Gao of the Chinese Academy of Engineering delivered a video message, participants viewed a retrospective film on the conference's first decade, and representatives of the core organizing teams from 2017 to 2026 jointly launched the next decade of China Multimedia.