The railway starts from Jilin, and the destination is Hunchun, a city on China-Russia border, with a total length of 360.976 kilometers, and designed speed of 250 km per hour.

The rail line will pass several tourist sites including the Songhua Lake, the Changbai Mountain, and the Jiaohe Red Valley. Therefore it is also known as the "most beautiful high-speed rail" in northeast China.