The effects of retarding resistance evolution of mixing and sequencing acaricides were studied based on the resistance selection of three acaricides to Tetranychus cinnabarinus in the laboratory. Tetranychus cinnabarinus was continuously selected with fenpropathrin, abamectin and pyridaban for 28, 30 and 31generations, respectively, and resistance factor increased to 65.6, 7.2 and 1.2 time, accordingly. Results of cross-resistance determination suggested that there were no cross-resistance existed among the three acaricides.Analysis of resistance selection and estimation of realized heritability (h2 ) of resistance to three single and two mixed acaricides showed that a mixture of fenpropathrin+abamectin would slow resistance development compared with a sequence of fenpropathrin followed by abamectin while the mixture of pyridaben+abamectin and the sequence of pyridaben followed by abamectin would effectively retard resistance evolution.