The black-backed white-ringed snake has been included in the List of Beneficial or Important Economic and Scientific Research Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.

Black-backed and white ringed snake life In the mountainous and hilly areas with an altitude of 400 to 1000 meters, it is often active in the forests, shrubs, grasses, fields, streams, and roadsides. Eat lizards, geckos, insects, etc. Distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan.