Songjiang Province (in simplified Chinese 松江省) is one of the provincial-level administrative regions of the Republic of China. It is located in northeast China and it is one of nine provinces in the eastern China. People sometime would call the province “Song” for short. The provincial capital of Songjiang Province was Mudanjiang.
In fact, the naming of the province comes from the important Songhua Rivers, because “jiang” in China actually has the meaning of “River”.

Talking about the geographical information of this province, the province is mainly composed of hills and mountains. The Changbai Mountain vein runs through the whole territory of the province. Northern part of this province is the Songliao Plain, and south-east side of it is the Tumen River Plain, whereas the central plains have Mudanjiang Valley, which is also the main essence of the province. Inside the province, there are some important lakes like the Jingpohu lake as well as the Changbaishan Tianchi.

According to the population statistics in 1947, at the first half of year, there were 4,535,092 people living in the province while during the second half there were only 2,570,806 people. There is a very great drop in population and there are some reasons. To start with, we must understand the background of this province in 1947. In 1947, it was the Chinese civil war, and there were a lot of war zones all over China and in this time, the Songjiang Province was also one of the battlefields. Therefore, some people were killed in this region and it contributed to the drop of the population. Of course, it was hard to imagine that millions of people were killed during the war. There are actually some other reasons. As mentioned above, that was the war period, and so governance would inevitably become a bit worse, and the immigration and emigration control would be loose. Therefore, it was also believed that people had moved from this province to other provinces to try to get rid of the cruel wars.

Anyway, in 1949, after the establishment of People’s Republic of China, this province was abolished and was turned to part of the Jilin Province.