In the 1990s,7 serotypes of bluetongue virus(BTV)were isolated from blood samples collected from sentinel animals in Yunnan Province by our laboratory. However,the genetic characteristics of these strains were still not clear,which hindered the study on the evolutionary history of BTV in China. In order to make clear the genetic characteristics of BTV strains spread early in Yunnan,one-step RT-PCR amplification,sequencing and sequence analysis were carried out for gene segments 2,3,7 and 10(Seg-2,-3,-7 and-10)of 25 BTV strains isolated in the province from 1995 to 1997. It was found that,by Seg-2 sequence analysis,Seven different BTV serotype strains(BTV-1,-2,-3,-4,-12,-15 and -16)were isolated,which fell into 6 nucleotypes of A,B,G,H,I and J,respectively;the Seg-2 of BTV-12 fell into Western topotype,but other strains belonged to Eastern topotype;it was showed that,by Seg-3 and Seg-10 sequence analysis,25 strains of BTV belonged to Eastern topotype;and by Seg-7 sequence analysis,one strain of BTV-2,two strains of BTV-12 and one strain of BTV-16 were clustered into Western topotype,and shared the closest genetic relationship with Seg-7 isolated from South Africa and Netherlands,and the other strains belonged to Eastern topotype. It was concluded that multiple serotypes of BTV were prevalent in Yunnan Province,and foreign Western topotype strains had been introduced into the province and reassorted with Chinese strains in the process of transmission as Seg-2 and Seg-7 gene reassortative isolates were detected. Some data was provided for evolution analysis and traceability study on BTV in China.