Xingtai Grand Canyon is not the birthplace of Qili River. The birthplace of Qili River is Fenghuang Mountain.

Phoenix Mountain is located in the mid-levels of Xingtai County, more than 30 kilometers east of Xingtai City. It belongs to the Phoenix Mountains, a branch of the Taihang Mountains. It is the highest mountain in the southern part of the Phoenix Mountains, with the main peak at an altitude of 796.50 meters. ?Fenghuang Mountain is located in the upper reaches of the Qili River in Xingtai. It is the birthplace of the Qili River, the watershed between the Qili River system and the upper reaches of the Dasha River system, and the administrative boundary between Xihuangcun Town and Jiangjun Tomb Town. On the front (east) of the mountain, at the foot of the mountain is Longweijian Village and its affiliated Hanquan Village; to the north, at the foot of the mountain is Houhecha Village; below Tannao on the north side are Xihe and Xihekou Villages; on the south side, to the southeast under the mountain is Nanyu Gou Village and its affiliated small village Jiangdouwan; the above villages are all under the jurisdiction of Xihuangcun Town. Behind Fenghuang Mountain (to the west) are Gudao Village and Houzhuang (Houzhuang belongs to Dourzhuang Village in Xihuangcun Town). At the foot of the mountain in the northwest is Qianhecha Village. Both villages are under the jurisdiction of Jiangjun Tomb Town.

There is Yegoumen Reservoir in the northwest of Fenghuang Mountain. On the north side of the mountain and at the foot of the mountain, is the nearly five-kilometer-long "West-East Water Diversion" tunnel dug in the 1960s. The water from Goumen Reservoir passes through the mountains to the Qili River system and extends to the Baima River system through the "Beigan Canal". There is also a southern trunk channel that passes through the west of Longweijian Village, passes under Fenghuang Mountain, extends to Doerzhuang and Dongjingzhuang, and then merges into Dongchuankou Reservoir.

The North Peak is the highest among the three peaks of Phoenix Mountain and is the main peak, with an altitude of nearly 800 meters; the Middle Peak is second, and the South Peak is second. The top of the south peak is relatively flat, but the surroundings are steep, especially the front, which looks like a wall.