Datong Volcanic Group is located in the area of Yunzhou District, 28 kilometers east of Datong, a famous historical and cultural city in China and the second largest city in Shanxi Province. It is one of the Quaternary Volcanic Groups in China, with more than 30 known ones, mainly distributed in the eastern part of Datong Basin. In the Pleistocene Epoch that up to more than 2 million years, It has been active for more than 100,000 years and ended in about 150,000 years ago in the early late Pleistocene Epoch. It is the stability of the continental interior, ultra-small, ephemeral, long-extinct volcano.

Datong Volcanic Group National Geopark is divided into Datong Volcanic Group Scenic Spot, Sanggan River Scenic Spot and Qiulinyu Scenic Spot. The Volcanic Group Park is the core scenic spot of the Volcanic Geopark. It is renowned as a "rare natural heritage of the East Asian continent" and a "volcano geological museum" due to the dense distribution of its volcanic cones, the typical representation, well-preserved forms, and famous reputation.

Datong Volcanic Group Geopark is a large-scale comprehensive geopark that combines geological relics and humanistic monuments with many functions such as sightseeing, leisure , vacation, popular science, scientific research and so on.