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Provincial-level municipality · Shanghai · 2026–2030
Shanghai’s 15th Five-Year Plan
上海市国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划纲要
A guide to Shanghai’s next global-city strategy: the gateways that connect it to the world, the social and environmental pressures it must manage, and the industries expected to power its 2026–2030 growth.
- Service trade
- >US$300bn
- Airport passengers
- 150m
- Rental homes
- 250–270k
- 15-minute services
- 95%
The plan in plain English
A global-city strategy under tighter urban constraints
Shanghai’s plan is about more than economic growth. It links five international-centre functions to the everyday pressures of an ageing population, expensive housing, climate risk and the renewal of a mature megacity. Advanced manufacturing remains central, but it sits inside a wider programme for global connectivity, public services and urban resilience.
Global-city strategy
Five international-centre functions
The plan defines Shanghai through five connected roles. Industry supplies the productive base; finance, trade, shipping and science connect that base to national and global networks.
Financial centre
A global allocation centre for renminbi assets and a risk-management centre; market transactions above RMB 4,500 trillion.
Trade centre
Global supply-chain functions, commodity pricing, digital and green trade; service trade above USD 300 billion.
Shipping centre
A globally connected sea-and-air hub, modern shipping services and digital, intelligent and green operations.
Science and technology centre
Basic research, strategic scientific capacity, key technology missions, translation platforms and talent reform.
International connections
Where Shanghai meets the world and the region
The plan assigns distinct roles to Pudong, Lingang and Hongqiao, while treating the Yangtze River Delta, the port and the airports as one larger system of flows.
Pudong
The plan positions Pudong as the main platform for institutional reform, global finance, multinational headquarters and international organisations.
Lingang
The special area is tasked with offshore business, cross-border finance and data flows, alongside advanced manufacturing and internationally competitive services.
Hongqiao
The international open hub connects the airport and railway gateway with trade, exhibitions, supply-chain services and Yangtze River Delta integration.
Yangtze River Delta
Shanghai proposes joint research, coordinated industrial chains, connected rail and ports, shared environmental action and more portable health, pension and government services.
Global gateways
By 2030, the plan targets more than 58 million TEU at the port, 150 million airport passengers and about 4.7 million tonnes of air cargo and mail.
Institutions and culture
Shanghai seeks stronger roles for the New Development Bank, IMF Shanghai Centre and UNESCO STEM institute, plus new international platforms for sustainability and AI cooperation.
People and social infrastructure
Planning for fewer births, longer lives and a mobile population
Demographic change is a planning constraint, not a side issue. The outline connects talent policy, family support, housing, education, health and eldercare.
Population and talent
Shanghai acknowledges lower births and population ageing, while using talent, residence-permit and household-registration policies to attract and retain workers.
Birth and childcare support
The plan combines birth allowances, parental leave, childcare and paediatric services with measures that reduce career interruption for women.
Ageing and long-term care
It targets 25,000 dementia-care beds and a 75% share of nursing-type beds in care institutions, backed by long-term care and the silver economy.
Housing and new residents
Shanghai plans 250,000–270,000 subsidised rental homes or rooms and more than 120,000 beds for essential city workers.
Health and education
Resources will shift with population change, including school-age peaks, while medical networks, public health and community care are strengthened.
Everyday access
The target is 95% coverage for 15-minute community public services, with basic services increasingly organised around permanent residence.
Climate, environment and renewal
Retrofitting a mature megacity
Shanghai’s environmental agenda combines decarbonisation with practical work on buildings, waste, parks, flood risk and ageing neighbourhoods.
Carbon and energy
Shanghai aims to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and raise renewable electricity to about 40% of consumption.
Buildings and neighbourhoods
New civil buildings move toward ultra-low energy use; more than 50 million square metres of existing buildings and 30 million square metres of older residential compounds are slated for renewal.
Circular city
The plan targets 50% household-waste recycling and develops a zero-waste city through reuse, sorting and cleaner production.
Parks and blue-green space
The city plans 500 additional parks and 500 kilometres of greenways, extending connected public space along waterways and ecological corridors.
Climate resilience
Flood, heat, weather, hydrological and seismic risks enter monitoring and early-warning systems, with stronger lifeline infrastructure and emergency capacity.
Urban renewal
Urban villages, obsolete housing, utilities and public space are tied to city health checks, public participation and more durable renewal finance.
Urban and regional geography
Six spatial moves behind the programme
- Central cityConcentrate business, finance, trade, culture and consumption around the Bund–Lujiazui–North Bund and Expo–Qiantan–Xuhui waterfront areas.
- One river, one creek, one beltUpgrade the Huangpu River, Suzhou Creek and the outer-ring ecological park belt as connected public-space and economic corridors.
- Middle and outer ringRenew sub-centres, transport hubs and industrial parks, including Zhangjiang, Jinqiao, Zhenru, Wusong, Xinzhuang and Hongqiao Linkong.
- Five new citiesBuild differentiated industrial and urban functions in Jiading, Qingpu, Songjiang, Fengxian and Nanhui.
- Strategic areasUse Pudong, Lingang and the Hongqiao International Open Hub as reform, opening and global-resource platforms.
- Yangtze River DeltaCoordinate innovation, industrial chains, infrastructure, public services and ecological management across the region.
Measurable commitments
Fifteen numbers that define the 2030 direction
Annual GDP growth
The plan says Shanghai will strive to reach this average.
Labour productivity
Per worker by 2030.
Digital-economy core
Share of GDP generated by core digital-economy industries.
R&D intensity
Total R&D expenditure as a share of GDP.
High-value patents
Per 10,000 people by 2030.
Industrial value added
Target share of GDP.
Strategic emerging output
Share of above-designated-size industrial output.
Leading-industry growth
Average annual manufacturing-output growth for the three leading industries.
AI-enabled manufacturers
Manufacturing enterprises using intelligent applications.
Advanced smart factories
Factories targeted through the AI+ manufacturing programme.
Financial transactions
Total financial-market transactions by 2030.
Service trade
Imports and exports of services by 2030.
Annual air cargo
Target airport freight and mail throughput.
Rental homes
New subsidised rental homes or rooms supplied over five years.
15-minute services
Coverage of community public services within a 15-minute walk.
Industrial framework
The 2+3+6+6 system decoded
Industry is one major engine of the wider city strategy. The formula combines two transformation directions with named leading, pillar and future sectors.
Traditional-industry transitions
Digital and intelligent upgrading; green upgrading. The plan specifically names chemicals, steel and light industry.
Leading industries
Integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence.
Emerging pillar clusters
Electronics, vehicles, equipment, materials, green energy and fashion consumer goods.
Future fields
Manufacturing, information, materials, energy, space and health.
Industries and actions
Nine named leading and pillar industries
The three leading industries and six emerging pillars form the plan’s main growth portfolio. Each has a defined technology or market direction.
Integrated circuits
Raise equipment capability, manufacturing performance and chip-design capacity while pursuing coordinated breakthroughs across the complete value chain.
Biopharmaceuticals
Develop innovative drugs and medical devices, accelerate translation and clinical trials, and improve payment pathways for new products.
Artificial intelligence
Build intelligent computing, foundation models and high-quality datasets; mature embodied intelligence; deploy vertical models and multi-agent systems.
Next-generation electronic information
Intelligent terminals, next-generation displays, ultra-high-definition media and new communications equipment.
Intelligent connected new-energy vehicles
Vehicle-led growth in components and services, with breakthroughs in autonomous driving, smart cockpits, intelligent chassis and solid-state batteries.
High-end equipment
Civil aviation, aerospace, ships and offshore engineering, industrial machine tools, instruments and intelligent manufacturing equipment.
Advanced materials
Electronic chemicals, advanced membrane materials, high-performance composites and other strategic materials.
New energy and green low-carbon technology
Advanced energy equipment, energy-saving and environmental equipment, green energy technologies and scaled applications.
Fashion consumer goods
Technology, design and brand development in premium apparel, cosmetics and new consumer categories.
Industrial geography
Where the industries are meant to concentrate
The official spatial list names eleven industry groups. Aviation and aerospace are separated because they use different production and innovation geographies.
Integrated circuits
An innovation corridor centred on Zhangjiang, Lingang and Jiading.
Biopharmaceuticals
World-class cluster focused on Pudong, Minhang and Jiading.
Artificial intelligence
Core concentration areas in Xuhui and Pudong.
Next-generation electronic information
Pudong, Songjiang, Qingpu and Jing’an for terminals, communications equipment, displays and ultra-high-definition media.
Intelligent connected new-energy vehicles
Jiading, Pudong, Lingang and Jinshan, working toward a world-class automotive centre.
Civil aviation
Lingang, Minhang, Changning and Jinshan, including large aircraft and the low-altitude economy.
Aerospace and spatial information
Minhang, Songjiang, Qingpu and Lingang, with commercial spaceflight and spatial information as specialist tracks.
High-end ships and offshore engineering
Chongming, Pudong and Baoshan, including high-value vessels and large cruise ships.
Advanced materials
Baoshan, Jinshan and Fengxian as transformation centres for metals and chemical materials.
New energy and green low-carbon
Advanced equipment in Minhang, Lingang and Songjiang; major application ecosystems in Hongkou and Baoshan.
Fashion consumer goods
Huangpu, Jing’an, Putuo, Yangpu and Fengxian, supporting Shanghai’s role as a fashion capital.
Future industries
Six fields and eight explicitly named frontier tracks
Future manufacturing
New production technologies and manufacturing paradigms.
Future information
Communications, computing and intelligent systems beyond current platforms.
Future materials
Materials that enable next-generation electronics, manufacturing and energy.
Future energy
Energy technologies with long development cycles and transformative potential.
Future space
Commercial and scientific activity in deep sea, air and space.
Future health
New interfaces, therapies and biological production systems.
AI at deployment scale
Artificial intelligence moves beyond the model layer
Shanghai’s AI+ programme specifies deployment in production, daily life and urban governance.
Production
More than 5,000 manufacturing enterprises using intelligent applications and more than 500 advanced smart factories; public computing services, domestic-stack testing and industry datasets.
Daily life
AI in diagnosis, health management, hospitals, education, smart homes, wearables, rehabilitation, cultural venues, tourism and creative design.
Urban governance
End-to-end intelligent handling of frequent government services, application-risk monitoring, disaster-warning agents and predictive models for severe weather and fire.
Planning and delivery
How the plan is meant to become action
Shanghai will prepare an implementation programme, assign responsibilities and timing, and manage the outline through dynamic monitoring, mid-term evaluation and final evaluation. Projects admitted to the municipal 15th Five-Year major-project pipeline receive priority consideration for land, sea-area use, energy and fiscal support.
- Sector and district plans must align with the comprehensive outline
- Binding indicators are decomposed for implementation; expected indicators are monitored and guided
- Market mechanisms lead industrial restructuring, supported by policy, institutions and law
- Implementation performance enters the assessment of districts, departments and public officials
Primary sources
Official publication, briefing and document
The full official webpage contains the plan, indicator table and specialist columns.
View the official plan ↗The municipal press briefing clarifies that “2” refers to the digital-intelligent and green transformation of traditional industry.
Read the official briefing ↗English summaries on this page are editorial guidance. The approved Chinese document remains authoritative.
Download the Chinese DOCX ↓