Located in the Songliao Plain, which is hailed as “the hometown of the black earth”, Jilin province has an arable area of 5.53 million hectares, accounting for around 29.5 percent of the provincial total land area. Its per capita arable land is 0.3 hectares, or twice the national average and almost equal to the world's average.

Jilin province is seeing rapid development in its highway, railway, and civil aviation sectors. It has formed a developed, convenient and modern transport network with Changchun, capital city of China’s Northeastern Jilin province as the center -- linking other areas in the province and the country.

Jilin province has a total of 62 universities and colleges, with 643,900 students. Out of every 10,000 people in Jilin, 230 are in-campus university and college students -- that number ranking the Chinese northeastern province fifth nationally. It boasts 21 institutions providing postgraduate programs.

Jilin province boasts strong scientific and technological advantages and competitiveness in industries -- such as automobiles, railway vehicles, optics, applied chemistry, solid state physics, optoelectronic (aerospace) information technology, biological medicines, new materials, scientific instruments, modern agriculture and modern Chinese medicine -- some of which are on the cutting edge of progress and development in the country.

Jilin province in northeastern China boasts rich and unique tourism resources -- including distinctive local landscapes which feature among other wonders the Changbai Mountains which stretches about 500 kilometers, as well as one of the country’s six major forestry regions, waterfalls, hot springs, lakes, grand canyons, relics -- and a whole host of cultural activities.

Boasting rich cultural resources, Jilin province in northeastern China has been given many accolades: is often hailed as a hometown of Chinese folk culture and art, of Chinese modern folk painting, and as “the hometown of Chinese Songhua inkstones”.