Marine; rainy season during southwest monsoon (June to August); cloudiness is persistent and extensive all year .

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There are 40 ethnic groups, including the Han, Korean, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, etc. .

Jilin is one of the important commodity grain bases in China. It abounds with soybean, corn, sorghum, millet, rice, small red bean, wheat, tuber, sunflower seeds, beets and tobacco. It has been among the national top in terms of percapita, commercial grain proportion for many years. About 2.96 million hectares of prairies in the province's northwest make it an ideal place for animal husbandry production, a well-known pasture land for sheep in the country as well as a major production base of commercial cattle and fine wool sheep in North China.