Abstract: The paper summarized the research advances in studies of orchard arthropod communities in China from aspects including sampling and analysis methods, composition structure and characteristics, the factors influencing arthropod communities in different orchards and ecological pest management (EPM), etc. It also discussed the factors that influence on grass growing in the orchards, different approaches for pest management, different habitats, different management measures that affect the orchard arthropod communities. The purpose of this research was to provide the EPM with theoretical foundation.