Helong is a county-level city in southeastern Jilin province, Northeast China. It is under the administration of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, an autonomous prefecture in which ethnic Koreans hold a designated status within the regional administrative framework.
The city is located in the southeastern part of Jilin, a province in China's Northeast region. As a county-level city, it forms part of the local administrative hierarchy beneath the prefectural level, with Yanbian serving as the prefecture that governs it.
In January 2024, several thousand North Korean migrant workers in Helong initiated a series of protests over withheld payments, an event that drew attention to the presence of this labor population in the city.