The Greater Khingan Mountains region is the jurisdiction of Heilongjiang Province. It has jurisdiction over 4 districts, 1 county-level city and 2 counties, with a total area of 83,000 square kilometers (among which Gagedaqi District and Songling District are owned by Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region). As of November 1, 2020, according to the seventh national census, the permanent population of the Greater Khingan Mountains region is 331,300.

Located in the northwest of Heilongjiang Province, the northeast of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the northeast slope of the Greater Khingan Mountains, the Greater Khingan Mountains is the northernmost prefecture in China with a temperate monsoon climate.
The Greater Khingan Mountains region is one of the main distribution areas of national key state-owned forest and natural forest, and is also the cold temperate bright coniferous forest in China and the only remaining cold temperate biological gene bank in China. A large number of large and medium-sized deposits, such as Mohe Shabaosite gold deposit and Xinlintayuan lead-zinc deposit, have been discovered successively in the two metallogenic belts of the Delbugan and the Greater Hinggan Mountains.

In 2021, the GDP of Greater Khingan Mountains was 15.31 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 6.3%.