Only about 1 1% of the total number of young students in Shanghai choose private schools, and nearly 90% of parents directly choose public schools to be attached to primary schools outside Shanghai.

Pudong Foreign Language Primary School affiliated to Shanghai International Studies University is a primary school established in 1999. 2 1 century is the era of knowledge economy. The new century marked by innovative knowledge requires that basic education become the cradle of cultivating innovative talents. Cultivating international innovative talents is the mission of the times entrusted by the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In order to meet the demand of Shanghai, an international metropolis, for high-level foreign language talents and establish a system for cultivating innovative foreign language talents, following the instructions of the leaders of Shanghai Municipal Government that "cultivating high-level foreign language talents must start at an early age", at the repeated requests of the Shanghai Municipal Government and under the direct care, support and coordination of the leaders of Pudong New Area,1September 1999, the private Pudong Foreign Language Primary School affiliated to Shanghai International Studies University was born in this hot land of Pudong. At that time, the deputy mayor in charge of education in Shanghai inspected the school and fully affirmed the overall school-running ideas.