Located on the southern slopes of the Lesser Xinggan Mountain Range in Heilongjiang Province, the Fenglin Nature Reserve was founded in 1958 with an area of 18,400 hectares.

The Reserve boasts 568 species of higher plants, and the Korean pine coniferous-broadleaf mixed forests are its most representative type of vegetation. Besides this Northeast China’s native tree, the Reserve houses also the Xinggan larch. Northeast China ash. Etc, and many herbaceous plants such as the Amur grape and Chinese magnolia vine growing on the forest floor.

The Reserve has not only well conserved the resources of rare Korean pine, but also as a nature museum and a gene bank of species, provides good conditions for biologists to study laws in variation, growth and evolution of population of coniferous-broadleaf mixed forests based on Korean pine and its ecology.