There are several big families in Jilin.

In addition to the Han nationality, there are 44 ethnic groups in the province. Among the 43 ethnic groups, the Manchu, Mongolian, Hui and Xibo ethnic groups live in the world, and the Korean ethnic group is a forced immigrant from the Korean peninsula during the Japanese occupation of Northeast China. In the whole province, the population of Han nationality is 248 1630, accounting for 90.97%; The population of ethnic minorities is 2,463,600, accounting for 9.03%. Among the ethnic minorities with large population, Koreans are mainly distributed in Yanbian, Jilin, Tonghua, Baishan and other cities in the east; Mongolian and Xibe nationalities are mainly distributed in Baicheng and Songyuan in the west; Manchu and Hui are mainly in Changchun, Jilin, Tonghua and Siping. There are four ethnic autonomous areas in the province: Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Qianguoerluosi Mongolian Autonomous County, Changbai Korean Autonomous County and Yitong Manchu Autonomous County. There are 34 ethnic townships (towns), including Mongolian townships 10, Manchu townships 10, 7 Korean townships (towns), 2 Hui townships, 3 Manchu Korean townships and 2 Korean Manchu townships. The number of ethnic minorities in the province and their proportion in the total population rank ninth and 1 1 respectively.