Jilin City, also known as "Beiguo River City", is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jilin Province. Approved by The State Council, it is an important industrial city in China, an important central city and a new-type industrial base in Jilin Province, and a tourist city with characteristics in northern China. By 2020, Jilin City has jurisdiction over 4 districts, 1 county and 4 county-level cities, with a total area of 27,120 square kilometers and a built-up area of 189.04 square kilometers. According to the seventh census data, as of November 2020, the permanent population of Jilin City is 3.623 million. In 2021, the GDP of Jilin City reached 155 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 7%.

Jilin is located in the northeast of China, the middle of Jilin province, is the country's only a province with the city of the same name, the northeast region and the important transportation hub of Jilin province, The State Council approved the establishment of a larger city, has the rime capital, north China characteristics of the tourism city, Chinese calligraphy city and other reputations, has won the Forbes list of the best commercial cities in mainland China, The first batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization.
Jilin is a national historical and cultural city, Jilin Province is named for Jilin City, Jilin city is famous for the rime. Jilin is the former capital of Jilin Province. Jilin City is also called "Shipyard" and "Jiangcheng" because of the shipyard city built along the Yangtze River in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Jilin City is also the second hometown of Peking Opera.

Jilin has held the 24th China Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Film Festival, Jilin City International Marathon, World Snow Day activities in China and other large-scale activities at home and abroad. And held 22 consecutive Jilin International Rime Ice and Snow Festival.