On the outskirts of Shanghai in the southeast, Fengxian District, a new promising industrial zone in the south of Shanghai City, covers 688 square kilometers with a population of 545,000. It lies near to Hangzhou Bay to the south and Huangpu River to the north.

Fengxian District was first settled 3,000 years ago. There was a Yanyan temple set up in commemoration of Yanyan, one of the Confucius’s favorite pupils, who gave lectures here in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.) according to the legend. In 751 A. D. (the 10th year under reign of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty) Huating County was established, from which, Baisha and Yunjian were separated and named as Fengxian County in 1726 (the 4th year under reign of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty).