Abstract: Based on the great progress made in a 10-year investigations on the weak points of beekeeping in China in Varroa destructor categories, honeybees virus diseases diagnosis, the pathogeny of honeybee bacterial infection, the screening of effective honeybee medicine with lower residues in bee products, and the set- up of demonstration bases, a new concept—honeybee diseases and pest management (HDPM), which challenges the traditional methods in the controlling of honeybee diseases and pest counting only on chemicals, has been proposed for the first time in international beekeeping industry. According to HDPM, the authors formulated the national standard -the Standard of Honeybee diseases and Pest Management. With the spread and demonstration of HDPM in China, the level of the integrated control of honeybee diseases and pest in China was greatly improved and reached an international advanced level. The beekeepers’ direct economic income benefited from HDPM in China reached 64.20 million RMB from the year 2002 to 2004. The indirect social benefit of about 90 million RMB obtained from the spread of HDPM was brought from 2002 to 2006. The application of HDPM resulted in the suppression of honeybee diseases and pests and reduction in the amount and frequency of chemicals usages as well, which provides a powerful technical support for the improvement of the quality honeybee products and a sound development of the beekeeping industry.

Key words: Honey bee , Disease , Pest , HDPM