Land resources

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.

Forest resources

Jilin province is an important forestry region with 9.3 million hectares of forestry land, covering 43.9 percent of the province. Its Changbai Mountain area is known as "a sea of forests" and is one of China’s six largest forest regions.

Mineral resources

Jilin province has 158 types of mineral resources and reserves of 115 types of minerals have been discovered. It tops the country in wollastonite reserves. The province has plenty of mineral water resources, with the best coming from the Changbai Mountain area, where the water quality has been confirmed by international authorities. It is one of the world's three largest mineral water-rich areas, along with the Alps in Europe and Caucasus in Russia.

Grassland resources

Jilin is one of China's eighth largest pastoral areas and a major animal husbandry region. Its grasslands cover 5.84 million hectares.

Wild plants resources

Jilin province has a diversity of species, with 3,890 species of wild plants identified, accounting for 13 percent of the country’s plant species. It has more than 350 species of wild edible plants. The flora of Changbai Mountain makes Jilin a major Chinese herbal medicine producing area and one of China’s three treasure houses of natural medicine. Jilin has rich resources of ginseng, hawthorn, schisandra chinensis and rhodiola rosea.

Water resources

Jilin province boasts rich water resources, with 1,648 rivers and 1,397 lakes, as well as 98 large and middle-scale reservoirs. It has water reserves of 40.4 billion cubic meters.

Energy resources

Jilin has proven coal resources of 2.67 billion tons, with 970 million tons minable. It has oil reserves of 1.56 billion tons, natural gas reserves of 189.8 billion cubic meters and identified oil shale reserves of 108.6 billion tons, ranking it first in the country. It also has coal bed gas reserves of 20.8 billion cubic meters.