Song Yulin was born in November 1947 in Tai Co County, Jiangsu Province. He studied painting under the guidance of his father, the famous landscape painter Song Wenzhi, since he was a small child. He graduated from the Department of Stage Setting, Shanghai Institute of Dramatic Art. For some years he worked as a stage-setting designer after his graduation. It was in 1979 that he began to take up the position as a landscape painter in the Chinese Painting Academy of Jiangsu Province. Since then his works of art have been exhibited in China and abroad, and collections of his paintings have been published. He has won many prizes in national and provincial art exhibitions. His works are in the collection of museums in China and in foreign countries. He visited West Germany in 1988. A member of Chinese Artists Association, he is the Chairman of Young Artists Association, Jiangsu Province, Honarary Curator of Song Wenzhi Museum of Art, Deputy Director of Academy of Chinese Painting, Jiangsu Province, First Grade Artists' and Deputy Assessor of High Grade Artists, Jiangsu Province.