Yinchuan has three districts. They are: xingqing district (old city), jinfeng district (new city) and Xixia (new city). Yinchuan, referred to as "Yin" for short, is the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the military, political, economic, cultural, scientific research, transportation, finance and commercial center of the region, and a comprehensive industrial city with the development of textile industry as the mainstay and the coordinated development of machinery, chemical industry and building materials industry.

Yinchuan is an ancient city with a long history. It is the capital of Xixia Dynasty and a national historical and cultural city. In folklore, it is also called "Phoenix City", "Xingqing House" and "Ningxia City" and is known as "the land of plenty in the south of the Yangtze River". There is a famous national scenic spot Xixia Mausoleum in the west. The comprehensive competitiveness of the city ranks among the top 100 in China, and it has successively won the honors of national civilized city, national water-saving city, national sanitary city, national garden city, national environmental protection model city, and China's human settlement environment model award, and was named "Top Ten New Riches in China".