“…Since the Mesozoic, the closure events of the Mongol‐Okhotsk Ocean Plate and the multistage subduction of the PPO plate have controlled the tectono‐magmatic evolution of NE China (Han et al, 2020; J. Li et al, 2019; Pang et al, 2019; W. L. Xu et al, 2013; C. Zhang et al, 2020), and formed voluminous Mesozoic granitoid rocks (Figure 1c; Gu et al, 2015; C. F. Liu et al, 2016; Lu et al, 2018; Song et al, 2015; Wei et al, 2020). Recently, growing evidence has implied that the Mongol‐Okhotsk Ocean Plate had been subducted since the Early‐Middle Permian (Mi, Lü, Yan, Zhao, & Yu, 2019), closing in a scissor‐like pattern with a west‐east direction (Donskaya, Gladkochub, Mazukabzov, & Ivanov, 2013; Tomurtogoo, Windley, Kroner, Badarch, & Liu, 2005), and finally closed in its eastern end‐member during the Late Jurassic‐Early Cretaceous (Kravchinsky, Cogne, Harbert, & Kuzmin, 2002). In addition, the NE‐trending Mongol‐Okhotsk Ocean suture zone was inconsistent with the NNE‐trending main vein of the GXR, suggesting that the Mongol‐Okhotsk Ocean tectonic domain might lack the controlled magmatic activity of the GXR during the Early Cretaceous (He et al, 2017; Tai, Mi, Wang, Li, & Kong, 2021).…”