There are about 660 volcanoes in China, the vast majority of which are extinct. The distribution is mainly in three regions:

①The northeast-Mongolian Plateau belt, including Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, and North Shanxi.  It contains many extinct volcanic cones, with the Datong region having more than 20. Famous volcanoes such as Datong and the Wudalianchi volcano groups. This belt has the largest number of volcanoes.

②Southwestern Tibetan plateau belt, including Xinjiang's southern Kunlun Mountains, Tibet, Yunnan. Famous volcanoes include the Tengchong Volcano Group in Yunnan.

③The eastern Pacific Rim. Its northern end starts from Changbaishan, passing through Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Taiwan, Leizhou Peninsula, and goes all the way to Hainan Island. Examples include the Changbaishan and Datun volcanoes in Taiwan.

Volcanoes in China have been active for a long time, are widely distributed and of various types, and exhibit periodicity. Although there has been no volcanic eruption for nearly half a century, the possibility and danger of volcanic eruption still exist. This is because China's volcanoes are mainly located in areas of crustal movements. The Neotectonic movement in the circum-pacific zone and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is very strong, and the seismic activity is frequent, providing the geological basis for inducing volcanic eruptions.

Wudalianchi volcanoes, within Wudalianchi Global Geopark, located in Wudalianchi City, Heilongjiang Province, spans 720 square kilometers and a well-preserved modern volcanic group. It is generally believed that Wudalianchi Volcanic Group is composed of 14 volcanoes, 15 if the Lianhua Mountain in the western part is included. Its total volcanic rock area is 800km².

Jingbohu volcanoes, within the Jingbohu UNESCO Global Geopark, are the Holocene ones, concentrated in the crater forest and Hamatang of Xiaobei lake, Ning'an County. There are 13 craters, all of which are composite volcanoes.

Changbaishan volcano is located on the southeast border of Jilin Province. The main peak on the Chinese side is Baiyun peak, with an altitude of 2,691m, the highest peak in Northeast China. It is also home to the most completely preserved Cenozoic polygenetic composite volcano in China, the water surface of Tianchi Lake is 2,189.1m above sea level, and the maximum depth is 373m.

Longgang volcano, Group is located in the east of Huinan County, Jilin Province. The group has more than 160 scattered and low volcanic cones, with high-density and multi-center explosive eruptions. The Longgang group is one of the few active Quaternary volcanoes in China.

Ashkule volcanoes, is located in the West Kunlun mountain on the northwest edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, about 120km south of Yutian County, Xinjiang, and composed of more than 10 main volcanoes and dozens of subvolcanoes. Almost all of these volcanoes are central eruptions, forming conical or conical without the top. Most volcanoes were formed in the Quaternary.

Tengchong volcano group is in the west of Yunnan Province and the west of Gaoligong Mountain (the south section of Hengduan Mountains). Located at the edge of the Eurasian plate, the area has the crustal movements that cause frequent earthquakes. Violent earthquakes had led to landslides, water surging, and lava erupting. When an earthquake stopped and the lava cooled, volcanoes with unique shapes were formed. The volcano group is a rare attraction and is likened to a "natural volcanic museum."

The Arxan Volcanic Group in Inner Mongolia, with a UNESCO Global Geopark, is mainly a Quaternary volcanic group, formed 2.5 million years ago. Its volcanic activity is characterized by multi-stage eruption. Volcanic eruptions form a large number of craters, which usually hold water to form crater lakes (Tianchi).

Leiqiong volcanic group, on both sides of Qiongzhou Strait (between Guangdong and Hainan provinces), has a large basalt platform forming seven huge lava sheets with a total area of 7,500 square kilometers. There are 80 volcanic cones, with a relative height of only 10 meters, and the lava is basalt.

Datun Volcanic Group and Guishan Island volcano are located in the northwest and East Sea of Taiwan Island. Datun Volcanic Group is composed of more than 20 volcanoes of different sizes. Both Datun volcanoes and Yellowstone volcanoes are "extinct," but they have strong surface and underground activity, similar to most active volcanoes in the world, and it is possible that they may be active one day.

Dalinor Volcanic Group in Inner Mongolia, within the Hexigten UNESCO Global Geopark, is one of the nine major volcanic groups in Northeast China and belongs to the circum-Pacific volcanic belt. It is characterized by volcanic cones arranged in echelons in the northeast direction and thousands of driblet cones.