The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is located in the eastern part of Jilin Province, covering an area of ??42,700 square kilometers, accounting for about a quarter of the total area of ??Jilin Province. The total population is 2.191 million, of which more than 800,000 are Koreans, accounting for 36.6% of the total population. It is the only Korean autonomous prefecture and the largest Korean settlement in the country. Since its establishment on September 3, 1952, it has been rated as a "National Model Group for National Unity and Progress" by the State Council four times in a row. The whole prefecture governs the six cities of Yanji, Tumen, Dunhua, Hunchun, Longjing, and Helong and the two counties of Wangqing and Antu. The capital is Yanji City.

1. Border and offshore, unique location. Yanbian is located at the junction of China, Russia and North Korea. It borders Russia's Primorsky Krai to the east and faces North Hamgyong and Liangjiang Provinces of North Korea across the Tumen River to the south. The total length of the border is 768.5 kilometers. Among them, the China-North Korea border line is 522.5 kilometers and the China-Russia border line is 246 kilometers. Yanbian is close to the Sea of ??Japan, and the Tumen River is the only water channel leading to the Sea of ??Japan in my country. Hunchun Fangchuan, the easternmost point of Yanbian, is only 15 kilometers away from the Sea of ??Japan. With Hunchun as the core, 10 excellent ports from Russia, North Korea and other countries are distributed in the surrounding area with a straight-line distance of less than 200 kilometers. Yanbian has 12 ports open to the outside world, with an annual cargo capacity of 6.1 million tons and a passenger capacity of 2.9 million passengers. After years of construction, Yanbian has initially formed a three-dimensional transportation network that connects roads, railways, aviation, and shipping to communicate with the inside and outside. Important transportation trunk lines such as Changhui Expressway, Changtu Railway, and Northeastern Eastern Railway Passage traverse the east and west and connect the north and the south. The eight counties and cities in the prefecture are connected by high-grade highways, and are connected by railways and highways with Russia and North Korea. The construction of the Jihun Railway Passenger Dedicated Line connecting the provincial capital cities has begun, and a line from Changchun to Vladivostok via Hunchun has been launched. Gram passenger line. In terms of maritime transportation, the transportation route from Hunchun to Busan in South Korea via Rajin, North Korea, the four-country intermodal transport route from Hunchun to Zarubino, Russia, Niigata, Japan, and Sokcho, South Korea were successfully tested, and the domestic trade cargo from Hunchun to the southeastern coast of my country via Rajin, North Korea. Cross-border transportation channel approved. In terms of aviation, Yanji Airport has opened a number of domestic routes to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, as well as international routes to Seoul and Cheongju, South Korea. It has successfully connected air routes to Japan via Seoul, South Korea. The civil aviation authorities of China and Russia have approved the arrival of Yanji to Vladivostok air routes.

2. It is rich in products and resources. Yanbian is located at the northern foot of the world-famous Changbai Mountain. There are 367 species of wild animals and more than 2,460 species of wild plants, including more than 800 species of medicinal plants. It is rich in ginseng, deer antlers and mink skins known as the "Three Treasures of the Northeast". Among them, ginseng antler production ranks first in the world. The existing ginseng (orchard ginseng) area in Yanbian is 6,300 hectares, with an annual output of 12,000 tons of fresh ginseng, accounting for more than half of Jilin Province. In addition, specialty products such as rice, cattle, edible fungi, tobacco leaves, bees, schisandra, apples and pears are well-known at home and abroad. The apple pear planting area is 4,700 hectares, making it the largest apple pear production base in Asia. In December 2002, Yanbian apple pears were protected as national geographical indication products. There are 487 large and small rivers in Yanbian border, with a water energy reserve of 1.41 million kilowatts. Among them, the mineral water resources are one of the few concentrated distribution areas of drinking natural mineral water in my country. The quality has been recognized by international authoritative organizations as the world's top mineral water. It is ranked as the world's three largest mineral water production areas together with the European Alps and the Russian Caucasus. The daily water output in the Daobai River area reaches 120,000 cubic meters, with huge development potential. More than 90 kinds of metal and non-metallic minerals have been proven in the state, with huge reserves of coal, oil shale, limestone, gold, iron, tungsten, molybdenum, etc. Yanbian is known as the "Changbai Forest Sea". The total forestry management area of ??the prefecture is 4.06 million hectares, with a forest area of ??3.536 million hectares and a standing stock of 390 million cubic meters. Yanbian is rich in tourism resources. There is a broad market space for Changbai Mountain scenery tour, Korean folk custom tour, cross-border cross-border tour, eco-tourism, ice and snow tour, red tour, and car self-driving tour. In 2010, the total tourism revenue was 8.3 billion yuan. There were 7.19 million foreign tourists.

3. Excellent ecology and simple folk customs. Changbai Mountain has preserved its intact original ecology. There are 9 nature reserves of various types and levels in Yanbian, with a forest coverage rate of 80.2%.

The climate is mild and humid, the air is fresh, warm in winter and cool in summer, with four distinct seasons. It is recognized as a "natural oxygen bar" and "ecological back garden" in Jilin Province and even across the country. The folk customs in Yanbian are honest and honest. The Korean people are good at singing and dancing. They respect the old and love the young. They pay attention to etiquette and respect literature and education. People of all ethnic groups are warm and hospitable. It is known as the "hometown of etiquette", "the homeland of singing and dancing", "the homeland of education", "Hometown of Football". There are 594 people with a college degree or above per 10,000 people in the state, which is 1.7 times the national average. Yanbian University was founded in 1949. It is the first local comprehensive university in ethnic minority areas to enter the national "211 Project". Yanbian attaches great importance to the development of sports and has advantages in swing, rope skipping, wrestling, skating and other sports. It is the only ethnic minority autonomous prefecture in the country with a first-class football team. In 2009, China's Korean agricultural music and dance was selected into the United Nations' Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, setting a precedent for a dance project in my country to be successfully applied for World Heritage status.

4. Preferential policies and prosperous industries. Yanbian is the only region in China that enjoys the policy of regional ethnic autonomy, the policy of developing the west, and the policy of revitalizing the old industrial base in the northeast. It is the "window" and "frontier" of the Changji-Tu development and opening up pilot zone and a key undertaking place for the gradient transfer of national processing trade. . At present, Yanbian has initially formed five pillar industries: food (cigarettes), energy and minerals, forestry products, tourism, and medicine, as well as advantageous industries such as building materials, textiles and clothing. It has cultivated and developed a number of well-known enterprises with important influence in the country: Jilin Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd., the largest cigarette manufacturer in Northeast China, created 3.2 billion yuan in tax revenue for Yanbian in 2010. The corporate trademark "Changbai Mountain" is a well-known trademark in China, and its flagship product The product "Changbaishan" low-tar cigarettes are currently the leading technology products in the same industry in China; Jilin Aodong Group, one of the top ten traditional Chinese medicine companies in the country, Datang Hunchun Power Plant affiliated to China Datang Electric Power Group, a leading company in the national energy industry, and a leading gold production company in the country Hunchun Zijin Mining, a subsidiary of Fujian Zijin Mining, generates more than 100 million yuan in tax revenue for Yanbian every year.

5. Development and opening up, huge potential. Since the reform and opening up, a large number of people from Yanbian go to work in Japan, South Korea, and European and American countries every year. During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the state's foreign-related labor service revenue exceeded 4 billion U.S. dollars, with an annual average of more than 800 million U.S. dollars. Labor income, mainly in US dollars, is continuously imported, forming a huge private capital. In 2010, the deposit balance of financial institutions across the state was 77.49 billion yuan, an increase of 10.69 billion yuan, an increase of 16% over the previous year; the loan balance was 33.35 billion yuan, an increase of 2.98 billion yuan, an increase of 9.8%. Abundant private capital has promoted the rapid development of the financial industry, making Yanbian a place of market competition for the financial and insurance industry. Yanbian's export-oriented economy is booming, attracting more than 810 foreign-funded enterprises from 25 countries and regions to purchase and develop properties in Yanbian. At the same time, dozens of companies across the state have invested and built factories in Russia and North Korea, involving many industries and fields such as food, cigarettes, clothing, aquatic products, and wood product processing. In 2010, our state’s pilot program for off-site travel permit application for border tourism with North Korea was approved, Hunchun City was approved to open ruble exchange business, and Yanji High-tech Development Zone was upgraded to a national-level high-tech industrial development zone. The total foreign trade import and export volume for the whole year was US$1.55 billion, an increase of 15.2%.

In 2010, the state's GDP reached 53.36 billion yuan, an increase of 1.52%; full-scale fiscal revenue was 8.8 billion yuan, an increase of 21.4%, of which local-level fiscal revenue was 4.13 billion yuan, an increase of 18.9%; Asset investment was 73.98 billion yuan, an increase of 3.01%; the added value of industries above designated size was 21.01 billion yuan, an increase of 20.4%; the total retail sales of consumer goods was 25.77 billion yuan, an increase of 18.6%; the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 14,780 yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers was 5,736 yuan. Increases of 7.6 and 10.8 respectively. The main economic indicators are higher than the national and provincial averages.