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Plant protection profiles from Asia-Pacific countries: PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA General information Last updated: December 2012 Overall executive summary During the period of 2011-2012, 7 National standards and 6 Industry standards were formulated. In addition, three new pests were added in the quarantine pests list of entry based on pest risk analysis. In 2011, the pest interception cases in the import cargoes reached the number of 500,106. Among them 242 were quarantine pests and 3,730 were non-quarantine pests. In 2012, the pest interception cases in the import cargoes were 400,497 and among which 217 were quarantine pests and 3,437 were non-quarantine pests. In 2011 and 2012, great effort was taken to control Cydia pomonella (L.) for establishing and maintaining the Pest Free Areas (PFA). Some strict methods also were conducted on Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley to protect the main cotton plant areas. And the high light of the quarantine pest control is the successful eradicated Solenopsis invicta Buren at Zhangjiajie in Hunan province in 2011, where the fire ant invaded in 2007. Outbreaks of some pests on major crops occurred in responses to significant changes in cropping systems, climate conditions, and crop varieties during the period of 2011-2012, among them, Athetis lepigone, wheat scab (Gibberrella zeae) ,Army worm [Mythimna separate (Walker)], rice brown plant hopper (Nilaparavata lugans), Rice Leaf Folder(Cnaphalocrocis medinalis) were the most severe and destructive ones. Regional actions were coordinated by the National Agro-technical Extension and Service Center (NATESC) of the Ministry of Agriculture for controlling migratory pests- locusts, meadow moth, army worm, rice brown hopper, rice leaf roller and regionally epidemical diseases- wheat scab, wheat stripe rust, rice blast and rice sheath blight, and newly emerged pests-Athetis lepigone, etc. The annual control acreages of major crop pests reached 530 million hectares in 2011