Songling Town () was built from 618 AD to 626 AD, the oldest town in Wujiang District,

Suzhou Suzhou is a major prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. As part of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis, it is a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce. Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou rapidly grew in size by the ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

. Wujiang District People's Government is now located in it, and it is the political and cultural center of Wujiang District. Urban area is now 34.35 square kilometers, planning area is more than 100 square kilometers. The administrative area is 148.58 square kilometers, with the jurisdiction of eight community committees, 46 administrative villages, and it has a total population of 12.04 million people. Songling is located in the north of Wujiang. It has an area of 208.02 square kilometers and a population of 226,026 (in 2007). It has the jurisdiction of 10 communities, 22 administrative villages. It also has Sujiahang, Highway 227, Highway 230,

Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal The Grand Canal () is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers and lakes in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern ...

parallel north-south across. It is 90 kilometers away from

Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport is one of two international airports serving Shanghai, China. The airport is located near the town of Hongqiao in the outskirts of Changning and Minhang districts, west of downtown, and is closer to ...

, and 40 kilometers from Sunan Shuofang International Airport.

History

On 12 July 2021, an annex to the Siji Kaiyuan Hotel collapsed due to illegal construction, killing 17 people and injuring another five.

References

Township-level divisions of Suzhou {{Suzhou-stub