Songzi is located in the southwest of Hubei Province, the mountains are connected with the remaining veins of Wuling, and the water is connected with Dongting blue waves. It is located in the upper reaches of Jingjiang River in the "nine-curved ileum", and the landform is "six mountains, one water and three fields". The city covers an area of 2177 square kilometers, with a total arable area of 1,291,700 mu and a total population of 820,000. It has jurisdiction over 2 subdistricts, 15 towns and 1 provincial development zone. In 2021, the gross domestic product of Songzi was 40.5 billion yuan, with a comparable increase of 19.3%. The total industrial output value was 40.3 billion yuan, and the industrial added value increased by 27.1%. In 2021, Songzi ranked first among second-class counties and cities in the provincial county economic assessment.

Songzi has been officially established for more than 2,200 years. In 1996, it was established as a city from a county. It is known as "Jinsongzi". Songzi is the founding general "one-armed general" He Bingyan's hometown, "Tiger Regiment commander" Yan Changrong from here on the road to anti-Japanese national salvation, Marshal Xu Qianqian's wife Huang Jie once served as Songzi the first county Party secretary, is an important part of the western Hunan revolutionary base, one of the country's 1389 old district counties.
As an industrial new town, Songzi is one of the 20 old industrial bases in the province. It has initially formed an industrial agglomeration pattern of "one district and three parks" and a leading industrial system of "1+2+1".

Songzi is a wine city, where the climate is mild, the soil is rich in grain, is a wine resort, has a long wine culture, gave birth to China's first wine and fragrance - Baiyun bian, was awarded by the China Wine Association "World wine Characteristic Producing area" title.
Songzi is a green city with mountains and rivers. There are 5 river systems and 6 rivers within the territory. It has a total woodland area of 1.1 million mu, with a forest coverage rate of 37.6% and national forest park and national wetland Park. It is the only one in Jingzhou and only 4 in the whole province.
Songzi is a dynamic port city, Jingzhou Port Songzi Port area is the only port with customs supervision in southwest Hubei Province and the only open county-level water transport port on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Hubei Province.