Shanghai Changning folk culture center is located in Xinjing District, the "hometown of folk art" in the west of Shanghai. It is located at 201 Tianshan West Road, adjacent to Shanghai Zoo and Hongqiao International Airport. Its predecessor is Xinjing cultural center in Changning District, Shanghai, which was established in May 1991. In November 2004, it was renamed as Shanghai Changning folk culture center with the approval of the district government. It became the first institution in Shanghai to operate characteristic mass culture and the first theme cultural center named after folk culture in China.

The center has a building area of 6500 square meters and a building area of 5000 square meters. There are movie theater, dance hall, pear garden, tea room, reading room, performance rehearsal hall, cultural exhibition hall and other activity positions, as well as Harbin mirror, Western mirror, miniature landscape of folk old street and other recreational facilities. The museum regularly holds cross talk conferences, drama appreciation, folk rap, knowledge lectures, cultural salons and other cultural activities.

As the leader of cultural construction, Changning folk culture center undertakes the important task of intangible cultural heritage protection in Shanghai. Today's Changning folk culture center is not only an image window to display folk art and folk customs, but also a multi-functional entity unit to train folk art skills, continue national skills, study folk culture and incubate national cultural industry, and specially hold exhibitions, performances and other activities of various nationalities, folk customs and folk culture and art. In order to give the audience a better experience, Changning folk culture center decided to upgrade its multi-functional hall audio system.