With a total area of 244.4 square kilometers, Yanliang district has two townships and five neighborhood committees under its jurisdiction. The total population of the district is 300,000.

The district has long historical and cultural deposits as well as peculiar industrial features. It is the site of the historically famous ancient Yueyang City, where the legend has it that the Chinese ancestor Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan cast nine ding tripods to set up his rule over China, and in history the Duke of Xiao of the State of Qin in Warring States Period (475-221 BC) appointed Shang Yang to carry out the reform, which laid the foundation for Qin's unification of China as the very first dynasty of imperial China.

Yanliang is the unique aerotropolis of China, and it is the aviation industrial base which is the biggest in Asia and the only one that integrates aircraft design, R&D, manufacturing, trial flight and appraisal, scientific research and education. Within the area there are large-scale aviation enterprises and institutions such as Xi'an Aviation Corporation, the First Aircraft Design and Research Institute of Air China, and China Flight Test Establishment, etc. More than 30 kinds of military or civil aircrafts including Y20, JH-7, MA 600 and ARJ21 take to the skies from here, the large aircraft project is launched here for R&D and for manufacture, and national aviation hi-tech industrial base is constructed here for further development.

The district also has beautiful urban and rural environment as well as competitive investment conditions. It is the intersection of Xi'an-Hancheng, Xianyang-Tongchuan and Xi'an-Yan'an railways, Beijing-Kunshan expressway runs through the region from the north to the south, and Guanzhong Ring Road and some other highways lead to all directions, Xi'an-Yanliang B Road has been constructed and put into operation, the projects of Guanzhong Intercity Railway and the nonstop expressway from Yanliang to the airport are to be launched.

The district has an important strategic position with a promising future. With the implementation of Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Zone Development Plan and the full-scale construction of Xi'an International Metropolis, Yanliang is determined as the sub-center city of the international metropolis.

In 2021, Yanliang district's GDP amounted to 26.48 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.32 percent.