The Xing'an Forest Park on the edge of Yichun city is the most accessible introduction to the Korean pine forest of the Lesser Khingan Range. The park is free to enter, occupies a genuine old-growth section of the forest, and has walking trails that penetrate deep enough into the trees to give a real sense of the scale and age of the forest. The Korean pines — tall, straight-trunked, with a high canopy that filters the light into something cathedral-like — are unlike the managed pine plantations you encounter elsewhere in China.
Mineral springs emerge in the park, and several are marked with small shelters where visitors fill bottles. The water is cold, clean, and slightly mineral. The park is quiet on weekdays except during summer holidays and is genuinely peaceful — the kind of place where an hour's slow walk through the trees leaves you calmer than when you arrived. In winter the snow on the canopy creates a peculiarly still and beautiful landscape, though the trails are icy and require appropriate footwear.