The full name of Yili is Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd., which is headquartered in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. It was established in June 1993 and belongs to a public listed company.

Yili is a state-owned enterprise (state-controlled enterprise), one of the leading enterprises in the dairy industry in China, and one of the 520 key industrial enterprises in China and the first batch of 15 1 leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization in China identified by eight ministries and commissions.