Abstract: This paper reports on the survey of human parasites in the suburbs of Zhangzhou City and Longhai County, where the socioeconomic development ranks at middle or high level. Of 4 614 persons from the nine sites examined, 3182 were infected, and the overall parasite infection rate was 77.6%. There were 32 species of parasites discovered during the survey involving 10 species of protozoa, 17 species of helminths and 5 Species of medical insects. Multi-parasitism was not uncommon, a person harboured as many as eight kinds of parasites was recorded. Cases infected by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 6 kinds of parasites in the positive population were accounted for 44.9 %, 32.9%, 16.7%, 6.2%, 1.3%, and 0.2%, respectively.