The city of Liaoyuan sprawls along the banks of the Dongliao River in the central south of Jilin Province. It has an area of 5,000 square kilometers and a population of 1.16 million. Liaoyuan, known as "Lesser Shanghai," has well-developed electronic, building material, and machine-building industries. It was an imperial hunting ground during the Cling Dynasty.

The city is a coal mining center., and coal has been excavated almost for 100 years there. It is also a national production base of commodity grain, producing maize, sorghum, soybean, and paddy rice Liaoyuan is well-developed in livestock breeding. It leads other parts of China in the amount of sika deer on hand.