Shanghai Songjiang District

Songjiang District, under the jurisdiction of Shanghai Municipality, is located in the southwest of Shanghai. It borders Minhang District and Fengxian District to the east, Jinshan District to the south, and shares its western and northern borders with Qingpu District.
As of 2023, it administers 6 subdistricts and 11 towns, with a total of 293 residents' committees and 84 villagers' committees. It also oversees the Shanghai Songjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shanghai Songjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and Sheshan National Tourist Resort. The local dialect, Songjianghua, belongs to the Suhu-Jia small dialect group of the Taihu Wu language.
In the tenth year of the Tang Dynasty's Tianbao era (751 AD), Huating County was established. In the third year of the Republic of China (1914), it was renamed Songjiang County. In February 1998, Songjiang was converted from a county to a district. The climate is classified as a northern subtropical monsoon climate, influenced by alternating cold and warm air masses. It is warm and humid with distinct four seasons. Located at the bottom of a saucer-shaped depression in the Taihu Basin, the terrain is flat and belongs to the Yangtze River Delta Plain. The entire land surface slopes from southeast to northwest, with the east and south being slightly higher and the west and north lower.

Post by VoyagerVisions | Oct 19, 2025