Songjiang is a suburban district of Shanghai. It has a land area of 605.64 km2 and a population of 1,582,398 (2010). Owing to a long history, Songjiang is known as the cultural root of Shanghai.
About 7000 years ago, people living in Songjiang created four types of unique culture: Majiabang Culture, Songze Culture, Liangzhu Culture and Guangfulin Culture, which laid a solid foundation of multicultural characteristics of Shanghai Culture. Songjiang was formerly known as Huating County (华亭县) and was part of Jiangsu province.