Baishan City, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jilin Province, formerly known as Hunjiang, is located on the west side of the Changbai Mountains, bordering Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in the east, Tonghua City in the west, Jilin City in the north, and Huishan City in the south of North Korea, across the Yalu River, and is situated in the hinterland of the Changbai Mountains, with the Longgang Mountain Range and the Laoling Mountain Range diagonally crossing the entire territory, and enjoying a continental monsoon climate of the North Temperate Zone, with a total area of 17,505 square kilometers. As of October 2022, the city had jurisdiction over two districts, two counties, one autonomous county, and one county-level city in its stead. As of the end of 2022, the city had a population of 906,200.
In April 1994, it was approved to change its name to Baishan City. Baishan City is located in the heart of the Changbai Mountains, the Yalu River, Songhua River through the flow, because of the mountains and the name, because of the water and the show, known as the "Changbai Forest Sea", "the Kingdom of the snow", "three-dimensional resource treasury" and so on. The area has formed the "Spring Viewing Area", which is the most beautiful area in China. Within the territory of the formation of the "spring to see the flowers, summer Tianchi, autumn maple, winter tour ice and snow" four-season tourism pattern, there is a national 5A-level tourist attractions Changbai Mountain. Fusong Xinan, Manjiang is the ancient city of the Northeast Asian Silk Road station, Changbai Lingguang Tower is the Tang Dynasty Bohai State period of the remains of the witness, Hunjiang is the Bohai State changed to Ding'an State after the royal city of the national capital, Jiangyuan "Tongjia old camp" is the establishment of Nurhachu Jin Jin Jin regime of the cradle of the foundations of the Changbaishan Mountain is the Manchurian Qing Dynasty "! Longxing land". The spirit of Yang Jingyu, the spirit of the Resistance and the spirit of "four protection Linjiang" has been passed down from one generation to the next. on October 9, 2020, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment was awarded the title of the fourth batch of national ecological civilization construction demonstration cities and counties. on October 27, 2023, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development was awarded the third batch of the national agricultural product quality safety city title.
In 2022, Baishan City realized a gross regional product of 54.176 billion yuan, down 1.3% from the previous year.