The city of Tieling, locating in the north part of Liaoning province and the middle part of Song liao Plain, is one of the fourteen cities whose municipality is under Liaoning province government. It has an area of 13,000 square kilometers and a total population of 2,941,000, including the urban population of 381,000. Tieling is a multinational area where Han, Manchu, Korea, Mongolia, Hui, Xibo, Uygur and Russian live in compact community, of which, Han nationality population was 2,312,000,70% of the total while the minority 692,000, 23.2% of the total.

Generally,the whole terrain features as the east, the north and the west parts are high while the middle and the south are low. The mountains and hills spread along east and west banks. The middle is Liaohe Plain. The city area can be divided into two parts---low hills area in the east and low plain area in the west.

Mountain area generally takes up forty percent of Tieling, water area ten percent, farmland forty and roads and fazenda ten percent. The eastern mountain area in Tieling is the tail of Mountain Changbai. Mountain Bingli, Mountain Chengzi, Mountain Jiguang and Mountain Longshou are the main base of the industry basing on forests in Tieling where trees grow richly,

Tieling has a solid agricultural foundation, considerable industrial inventory, sufficient water and power resources, abundant mineral reserves, and an advantageous geographical location. Strong agriculture development made Tieling the "Barn of North Liaoning". The city is a critical point to connect with Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces to the north. Within 100 kilometers around Tieling, there are 10 large cities and a population of 30 million. Those cities are mainly focused on heavy industry or chemical industry. Tieling is the city to focus on agriculture, including husbandry. The geographical location and agricultural specialty provide Tieling a major opportunity in the industrialization of agriculture and high value-added agricultural products.

Tieling enjoys abundant water resources. The Liaohe River system with the river itself and 87 branches has a water reserve of 3.14 billion cubic meters, of which 2.12 billion cubic meters can be utilized. This water reserve is not only able to meet residents’ daily water demands but also sufficient for the city and its downstream areas’ agricultural and industrial production.