Table 1.

Stratification of malaria counties in relation to malaria transmission risk by NMEAP in China and Shandong Province

Type of county	Classification	No. (China/Shandonga)	Target (10,000) (China/Shandonga)
Type I	Local infections are detected in 3 consecutive years and the incident rate equals or higher than 1/10,000	75/0	3965/0
Type II	Local infections are detected in 3 consecutive years, and the incident rate is lower than 1/10,000 at least in one of those 3 years	687/58	44,792/4279
Type III	No local infections reported in 3 years	1432/79	62,281/4808
Type IV	Non-malaria-epidemic-area	664/0	18,882/0

^aThis indicated that the number of counties and target population in China and Shandong, respectively