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Chunjiao Dong Ph.D. Professor

Department of Traffic Engineering
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School of Traffic and Transportation
April, 2025


Shanghai Master Plan 2017-2035

„ Striving for the excellent global city
„ Shanghai Urban Planning and Land Resource
Administration Bureau
„ Being a charming and inclusive city with unique “East Planning
meets West” culture around each corner, Shanghai region
offers diversified options for free development of its
citizens
„ Aim to plan a Shanghai where residents of all ages
may enjoy their lives and lead a healthy lifestyle


Shanghai Master Plan 2017-2035 The future Shanghai is a place
Shanghai in 2035 will be a city where „ People may jog in the green spaces close to their
homes, and sit on the grass for a rest after jogging to
„ buildings are enlightening watch birds fly by.
„ streets are strolling-friendly and parks are „ As for drama lovers, they may watch plays right
enjoyable within their neighborhood instead of travelling afar to
„ while the citizens have the reputation of being a grand theater. They may even voice their views
about the play and improvise out of fun and interest.
law-abiding, credible and well-mannered
„ For kids, they may play safely without worrying about
„ Shanghai, a city endowed with tenderness
being scratched or run down by speeding vehicles.
„ In a city with no neglected corner, everyone attends
to each other, cares for and supports each other.
 

Shanghai is not only for China or the world, but

for its citizens! “Shanghai 2035” or the Master Plan
„ With the love and affection of its citizens, Shanghai will „ The Shanghai Master Plan 2016-2035 is organized
grow more vibrant, and become a fountain of creativity.
and prepared by Shanghai Municipal People’ s
„ Let us try our utmost to build Shanghai into a place
Government and is approved by the State Council
full of positive energy and vitality that will fulfill its
mission to lead the national economic development „ It serves as the basis and official document for city
and partake in the international competition planning, construction and management within the
„ Let us build Shanghai into a place for people to live a jurisdiction of Shanghai.
good and prosperous life, and stimulate their zest for life
„ It is also an important document to guide the future
„ Let us build Shanghai into a place where we can fully
development of Shanghai, and a development
comprehend the significance of both our work and life,
and live our lives to the fullest blueprint to realize “Better City, Better Life” .
 
 CONTENTS PART IÆ
ÆNEW START, NEW FUTURE

PART IÆNEW START, NEW FUTURE „ Why Shanghai needs a new Master Plan?
„ How is the Master Plan organized?
PART IIÆ
ÆSHANGHAI, THE EXCELLENT GLOBAL
CITY „ What are the main characteristics of this Master
Plan?
PART IIIÆCOMMON ACTION, COMMON HOME

PART IVÆENSURING THE IMPLEMENTATION

 

Why Shanghai needs a new Master Plan? How is this Master Plan Organized?
Leading Group of the Master Plan
„ To stand at a new historical starting point

„ To adapt to the new development trends

„ To respond to new development challenges

 
How is this Master Plan Organized? Multi-sector collaboration
Multi-sector collaboration „ Four institutes (Shanghai Urban Planning and
„ 40 research groups Design Research Institute, Shanghai Tongji Urban
Planning & Design Institute, Shanghai Branch of China
„ 22 commissions and committees of the
Academy of Urban Planning & Design, and Shanghai
municipal people’s government
Institute of Geological Survey) have been organized
„ 16 district people’s governments
to jointly work out the planning results
„ Jointly carry out special strategic study, formulate
special plans and study the preparation of an urban „ Multi-field expert consultation
master plan for districts and counties as well as a „ Multi-channel public participation
master plan for land utilization
„ Multi-level regional coordination
 

Main characteristics PART II SHANGHAI, THE EXCELLENT GLOBAL CITY

„ New Goals
„ More emphasis on innovative development ¾ Adapt to international trends
¾ Implement national strategies
„ More emphasis on open development
¾ Keep a foothold in public expectations
„ More emphasis on cordinated development „ New Models
¾ Bottom-line control, endogenous development,
„ More emphasis on shared development
flexible adaptation
„ More emphasis on green development ¾ Comprehensive population regulation
¾ Usage of land resources
„ New Space
¾ Highlight Shanghai’s regional leading responsibility
¾ Form an open and compact city spatial model
 
New Goals New Goals
„ Adapt to International Trends Public recognitions on Shanghai’s future development
The “Internet+” program to push forward new goals per the survey (16000)

technological reform iteratively

„ Implement National Strategies

Shanghai takes on the national mission and historical
responsibility of guiding the region to in-depth
participation in the international competition

„ Established in Public Expectations

Environment-friendly, economically-developed,
culturally-diversified and safe and livable city
 

Target 1 More Dynamic: An Innovation City Target 1 More Dynamic: An Innovation City
Improve core functions as a global city Optimize service capability of city transportation
„ R&D input will be 5.5% of the gross regional product „ Each new town with over 100,000 residents will have
„ Added value of finance will be 18% of the entire city’s its metro station
GDP
„ Efforts will be made to reduce the average commute
„ Total annual inbound tourists will be 14 million
time to less than 40 minutes in central Shanghai
„ Industrial land for development of advanced
manufacturing in the industrial base will be no less than Promote creation of sound employment and
150 square kilometers business start-up environment
Seek steady rise in status as a gateway city „ Ratio of innovative groups among the working
„ International travelling passenger volume will reach 38% population will be substantially increased
„ The rate of international container transit will be no less „ Ratio of rentable units operated by government,
than 13%
institutions and enterprises will take up 20% of all
„ The coverage of high-speed wireless data communication newly-built housing
 network will be up to 100% 
Target 2 More Attractive: A Humanistic City Target 2 More Attractive: A Humanistic City
Build a 15-minute community living circle of Create featured urban-rural landscapes
diversification and inclusiveness
„ Complete backbone green roads of 2000km long
„ 99% accessibility to community public service
facilities within 15 minutes’ walking distance Cultivate an inclusive culture milieu
„ Up to 90% accessibility to open public space (park
„ People working in the cultural sector will take up 10%
and squares over 400 square meters) within 5
minutes’ walking distance of total employment
Conserve unique historical heritage
„ Ensure at least 2 sites to be listed by UNESCO as
World Cultural Heritage
„ Substantially increase the heritage protection budget
in the public budget
 

Target 3 More Sustainable: An Eco-City Target 3 More Sustainable: An Eco-City

Proactively respond to climate change Establish a sound and comprehensive environmental
„ Increase ratio of renewable energy sources in regulation system
primary energy sources „ Annual mean concentration of PM2.5 will be controlled
„ Reduce total carbon emission by about 5% at around 25mcg/m³
compared to the peak in 2025 „ Compliance rate of water (environmental) function
zone will be up to 100%
Create a green and open eco-network
Achieve stable and efficient comprehensive disaster
„ Ecological land will account for at least 60% of the
prevention capability
total land area
„ Per capita emergency shelter area will be over 2.0 m2
„ Forest coverage will be 23%
„ Medical first-aid center will be accessible within a
„ Park green space will be up to 13 square meters per
radius of 3 km in the main city and new cities, and
capita through efforts
 
within a radius of 10 km in suburbs
New Models DEVELOPMENT MODE TRANSFORMATION
Shanghai aims to become a paradigm of
sustainable development for high-density
megacities
„ Bottom-line Control: To satisfy requirement on the
“negative growth” of the overall planned
construction land, four development baselines,
construction land boundary, population size ceiling,
ecological environment boundary and city safety
requirement
„ Endogenous Development
„ Flexible Adaptation
 

Management of population Usage of Land Resources

„ Strictly follow central government’ s requirement
on controlling population in megacities
¾ Permanent population: 2020Æ<25 million
¾ 2035Æ25 million
„ Meet rational needs of the people served by the
„ Comprehensive space coordination
city „ Optimize ecological, agricultural and urban
„ Respond to Shanghai’ s trends of increasingly spaces
aging population, low-birth-rate and „ Optimize land utilization
internationalization 60%—Proportion of ecological land (including land
for afforested squares) in city’s overall land
 
 New Space
„ Region-based Make the metropolitan area
City comprehensively carry out important national
circle
strategies and requirements (90 min)
„ City-based Make the town cluster the basic
Ecological Town unit of spatial organization and resource
land circle
allocation (30-40 min)
„ Focus on Communities Make the 15-minute
Living life circle a basic unit of social governance and
circle
basis for common community resource
allocation


Highlight Shanghai’s Regional Leading Responsibility Shanghai Location Map

„ Strengthen joint protection and governance of
ecological environment
„ Enhance interconnection of regional
transportation facilities
„ Promote joint construction and sharing of
regional municipal infrastructure
„ Strengthen integration and sharing of regional
culture
„ Pursue joint development of strategic
cooperation regions
 
Form an Open and Compact Municipality Spatial layout

Promote urban and rural integration, create

differentiated spatial development strategies and a
“main city – new city – new town – village”
municipality-wide urban and rural system Shanghai Urban-
„ Main city: improve functional energy level Rural System Plan
„ New city: highlight node city with comprehensive
functions
„ New town: promote a harmonious categorized
development
„ Village: highlight harmonious livable function
between humans and nature


System for Urban Public Activities centers

Municipal
Public Activity
Center
Network Plan


Achieve overall urban and rural development in
the suburbs
„ Divide 16
comprehensively
developed town clusters
led by new cities, core Shanghai
towns and central towns
„ Divide 4 integrated and promoted town clusters in the
Town Cluster
surrounding highly urbanized areas of the main city
Plan
„ Divide 4 ecology-dominated town circles to improve
basic public services in urban and rural areas
„ Advance overall development of cross-district town
clusters


PART IIIÆ
ÆCOMMON ACTION, COMMON HOME A More Dynamic Innovation City
Enhance Shanghai’s Core Function to Build a Global City
„ A More Dynamic Innovation City

„ A More Attractive Humanistic City

„ A More Sustainable Eco-City

 
A More Dynamic Innovation City Develop a More Open International Hub
„ Asia-Pacific airline gateway
¾ By 2035, the passenger throughput at Shanghai aviation
hub will be over 180 million person-times, and air cargo &
mail will be over 6.5 million tons
„ Upgrade the city’s function as an international sea hub
¾ River-ocean combined transportation featuring over 55% of
water-water transfer
„ Improve the radiating service capability as a railway hub
¾ Railway amounts to about 65% external passenger
transportation
„ Enhance the city’s service level as an information
communication center
 

Railway
¾ 5 major linkage
Strengthen construction of comprehensive
transportation corridors to promote regional directions
transportation integration (Nanjing,
„ Build an external traffic network dominated Hangzhou,
by railway and comprehensively supported Nantong, Ningbo,
by multiple other means
Huzhou)
„ 5 major linkage directions will be formed to
¾ 7 regional
strengthen the service efficiency, energy level
and safety reliability of 7 regional comprehensive
comprehensive transportation corridors, and transportation
shorten the time of travelling between Shanghai
corridors
and neighboring cities to within 90 min
Public transit Public transit
„ Build a Comprehensive Transportation System Improve the service of public transportation in the
that is “Safe, Convenient, Green, Efficient and inner areas of the main city
Economic
„ By 2035, the public transportation will account for
„ Highlight the dominance of public transportation over 50% of all means of transportation
and strengthen the layout of municipal rail
„ Green transportation will account for 85%
transit network
„ 60% rail transit stations in the inner areas of the
„ Form a “one-networked, multimodal, fully
main city will have 600m land coverage
covered and highly intensive” public
transportation network, and build intercity lines,
urban lines and regional lines in a length of
more than 1,000km each.
 

Multimodal Public Transportation Network Public transit

 
Municipality-wide Arterial Road System Plan Employment and Entrepreneurship

Create a More Attractive Environment

„ Optimize the structure and layout of jobs

„ Advance development of SMEs and micro

business

„ Provide the environment encouraging the talent

growth

 

Create a 15-Minute Community Living Circle

Develop an affordable and sustainable housing supply
system
¾ Advocate an approach encouraging renting and
purchase
¾ Arrange social housing via multiple channels
Complete the “four in one” housing guarantee system (i.e. low-
rent housing, public rental housing, common property rights
housing and resettlement housing). By 2035, low-income
housing will account for 8%-10% of all housing across the city
¾ Meet residents’ need for multilevel and diversified
housing
¾ Advance sustainable use of old residential houses
 Basic public service system
Perfect a fair, shared, flexible and inclusive
„ Build a full-coverage, equalized basic public service
system
„ Provide public service assurances covering all ages
¾ community libraries, cultural activity rooms, citizens’
fitness centers
¾ schools for the aged and training centers for teenagers
¾ improve community health service centers, service
hygiene points
¾ encourage more openness and utilization of
community public service facilities for teenagers


„ Build an elderly-friendly city

Optimize the environment for community life,

employment and commuting


Strengthen Conservation of Historical and
Cultural Heritage
Enhance overall protection of urban and rural historical sites
„ Shanghai is one of the cities lavishly endowed with
historical and cultural heritages in modern and
contemporary China
„ State Council officially announced Shanghai as a
national famous historical and cultural city in 1986
„ In the face of upcoming 2035, Shanghai will enhance
overall protection of its historical urban areas,
actively protect historical towns and villages
„ Employ multiple methods to rescue and protect such
sites in the process of old city zone renovation and
urban village renewal
 

Build an International Metropolis with Featured Municipality-wide Historical and Cultural Protection Plan
Jiangnan Water Towns
„ Expand range of protected historical and cultural
heritages
„ Create a new historical and cultural conservation
mechanism

 
A More Sustainable Eco-City
„ Expand municipality-wide ecological space, „ Improve municipality-wide ecological corridors
and optimize the ecological pattern ¾ Suburbs: build 9 ecological corridors over 1000m
¾ An municipality-wide ecological spatial system will be wide at 10 ecological conservation zones as the
built to cover “two rings, nine corridors and ten strategic ecological guarantee space
zones” on the basis of connecting with regional ¾ Main city: build 16 ecological spaced belts over
ecological system 100m wide at suburban green ring
¾ By 2035, there will be 23% forest coverage ¾ Establish an urban-rural park system: by 2035,
throughout the city, the park space per capita will be the park space per capita throughout the city will be
13m2 and the water surface ratio of rivers and lakes up to 13m2
will be 10.5%
 

Develop interwoven green land network in the IMC Municipality-wide Ecological Network Planning

 
Safeguard city security and build a resilient city

Enhance protection of marine, atmospheric,

water and soil environment

 

Cope with global climate change, and ramp up the Reinforce supply security of urban energy and
city's resilience to natural disasters water resources
„ Promote green and low-carbon development „ Safeguard supply security of urban energy
¾ The energy structure will be optimized to reduce „ Safeguard supply security of urban water resources
industrial and building energy consumption
¾ Green transportation will be encouraged to
comprehensively reduce carbon emissions
¾ The carbon emissions of the entire city and per capita
will reach the peak by 2025
¾ By 2035, the total carbon emissions will be reduced by
about 5% of the peak value
„ Respond to rising sea level
„ Mitigate extreme climate and urban heat island effect
 
PART IVÆ
ÆENSURING THE IMPLEMENTATION

„ Optimize the Spatial Planning System of

“Integrated Urban Planning and Land Use
Planning Schemes as well as Promotion of
‘Multi-sectors’ Plans in One”
„ Perfect the Policy and Regulation System
„ Establish a Master-Plan Implementation
Mechanism Involving Multiple Parties
„ Perfect the “Monitoring-Assessment-
Maintenance” Mechanism of the Master Plan


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