A subadult pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) was observed on 29 July 2012 in the Hanma Nature Reserve, Greater Xing'an Mountains, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Combining review the literature and examined specimens preserves at different musuem, more distribution records in spring and summer of pine grosbeak has been confirmed in China. This species has been known a habit of irruptive migration in some years, which leads to a greatly change in its breeding and wintering range annually. According to these records, presumably the status of pine grosbeak is a rare summer visitor in addition to previously known winter visitor in China. The historical record of the pine grosbeak in jincheng Shan area, eastern Sichuan is turned out to be the crimson-browed finch (P.subhimachala).