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With its great achievement in schistosomiasis control, the government of China has set the goal to eliminate the parasitic disease at the country level by 2030. However, one major challenge is the remaining huge areas of habitats for the intermediate host Oncomelania hupensis. This is further exacerbated by an increasing number of new emerging snail habitats reported each year. Therefore, population genetics on snails in such areas will be useful in evaluation of snail control effect and\/or dispersal. We then sampled snails from new emerging habitats in Taicang of Jiangsu, China, a currently S. japonicum non-endemic area from 2014 to 2017, and performed population genetic analyses based on nine microsatellites. Results showed that all snail populations had low genetic diversity, and most genetic variations originated from within snail populations. The estimated effective population size for the 2015 population was infinitive. All snails could be separated into two clusters, and further DIYABC analysis revealed that both the 2016 and the 2017 populations may derive from the 2015, indicating that the 2017 population must have been missed in the field survey performed in 2016. 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