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Table 1 Imported and indigenous malaria cases by province in the land border regions of China, 2011–14

From: Risk assessment of malaria in land border regions of China in the context of malaria elimination

Provinces

No. and length of land bordering counties

Malaria cases

Imported malaria case

Indigenous malaria case

No (length)

With malaria occurrence (%)

All

P. vivax (%)

P. falciparum (%)

Othersa (%)

All

From neighbouring country (%)

From non-neighbouring country (%)

All

No. counties in the consecutive three years

2011–2013

2012–2014

Yunnan

25 (4060  km)

25 (100)

1878

1520 (80.9)

324 (17.3)

34 (1.8)

1357

1342 (98.9)

15 (1.1)

521

11

7

Liaoning

5 (128 km)

5 (100)

27

3 (11.1)

22 (81.5)

2 (7.4)

25

1 (4.0)

24 (96.0)

2

0

0

Tibet

18 (3842 km)

2 (11.1)

20

10 (50.0)

0

10 (50.0)

1

0

1 (100)

19

1

1

Jilin

10 (1438 km)

4 (40.0)

9

0

7 (77.8)

2 (22.2)

9

0

9 (100)

0

0

0

Guangxi

8 (800 km)

2 (25.0)

7

2 (28.6)

3 (42.9)

2 (28.6)

7

5 (71.4)

2 (28.6)

0

0

0

Xinjiang

32 (5600 km)

4 (12.5)

4

0

3 (75.0)

1 (25.0)

4

0

4 (100)

0

0

0

Heilongjiang

18 (3045 km)

2 (11.1)

2

1 (50.0)

1 (50.0)

0

2

0

2 (100)

0

0

0

Inner Mongolia

19 (4200 km)

1 (5.3)

1

0

1 (100)

0

1

0

1 (100)

0

0

0

Gansu

1 (65 km)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Overall

136

45 (33.1)

1948

1536 (78.9)

361 (18.5)

51 (2.6)

1406

1348 (95.9)

58 (4.1)

542

12

8

  1. aOthers contained P. malariae, mixed infection cases and untyped cases