Yijin Holo Banner is under the jurisdiction of Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It is located in the southeast of Ordos Plateau and the northeast edge of Mu Us Sandy Land, bordering Dongsheng District in the north, Kangbashi District across the Ulan Mulun River, adjacent to Junge Banner in the east, Hangjin Banner in the west, Wushen Banner in the south, and Shaanxi Province across the Great Wall. Covering an area of 5,600 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 7 towns and 138 administrative villages. According to the seventh census data, as of midnight on November 1, 2020, the permanent population of Ejin Horo Banner was 247,983.

In 2021, the total output value of Ejin Horo Banner was 99.077 billion yuan, an increase of 4.5% over the previous year.

In March 2020, it won the title of "Advanced County in National Village Cleaning Action" and was praised by the Central Agriculture Office and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

In December 2020, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released the Top 100 Comprehensive Competitiveness of County Economy, ranking 20th.