Changbai Forest Region

Korean pine mingles with broadleaf trees across Changbai Mountain in one of the most typical and intact temperate forest ecosystems of eastern Asia.

For wild Amur tigers and leopards, this cross-border reserve is China's most important home, where these apex forest predators settle and breed.

Billed as one of Asia's largest Korean pine seed stands, Lushuihe rolls on for miles as the green heart of the Changbai ecology.

Guarding the headwaters of the Yalu River, the Linjiang forests form a natural barrier that holds soil and supports breeding of rare northern cold-water fish.

In 1682, Kangxi toured Jilin and performed a distant sacrifice to Changbai, reinforcing its Qing state-ritual status.