Thinking About Building Shanghai Into The World City

World cities are the central cities that have the power of control world economy and act on the distribution of global strategic resource. With the acceleration of economic globalization and information, world cities having a decisive impact on the future economic restructuring, so the research on world cities has gained ever more attention from both domestic and international academic circle.This text has introduced the research current situation about the world city both at home and abroad at first, have put forward the concept , characteristic and index system of the world city on this basis. Then take London , New York , Tokyo of world city as an example , recommend economic shape , population distribution and city of the world city to enclose supporting . This text proves with a large number of data afterwards Shanghai is the first city of China Mainland, qualified to build up world city, it is China Mainland that builds up a city of world city most possibly, there is very great disparity between the elementary standard of world city and existing world city London , New York , Tokyo and Shanghai at the same time, even compared with Hong Kong, the disparity of Shanghai is very obvious. This text finally thinks on the basis that the front every chapter is analysed, Shanghai may build up a world city , but will go if there are very long ways, and proposed some suggestions to that how Shanghai has built up a world city.