The Area of the Nanjing Road: It is a core business and commercial zone embodying the urban vitality from the Suzhou Creek in the north to the Huaihai Road (E) and the Renmin Road in the south and from the Sichuan Road (M) in the east and to the Chengdu Road in the west, with an area of about 3.2 square kilometers.

uring the period of the Eleven Five-Year Program, the area will make use of the advantages of many traditional centers and concentrated modern services, inherit the classic, deepen development, reinvent functions, polymerize to become stronger, further strengthen the business, commerce and modern services functions, build itself into one of the marker areas of concentrated high-grade business and commercial institutions and display the prosperity and flourishing of Shanghai central city district.

The Area of the Yuyuan: It is the core of the old Shanghai Town , the source of Shanghai 700-year history, the important carrier for inheriting Shanghai historical context and the municipality-level commercial center with the most traditional features. It is from the Zhonghua Road in the east and the Renmin Road in the north to the Henan Road (M) in the west and the Fuxing Road (E) in the south with an area of 0.72 square kilometers.

During the period of the Eleven Five-Year Program, the area will depend on the rich historical and cultural details and feature tourism resources, continue the historical context, excavate cultural connotation, readjust commercial structure, improve key tourist elements, upgrade the commercial and business functions, produce the interaction effects among commerce, tourism and culture and build itself into an internationalized commercial, cultural and tourist area embodying Shanghai historical glamour.

The Area of the World Expo Site: The world Expo site with an area of nearly 1 square kilometer is the place where world civilization, Chinese culture and Shanghai development achievements are converged, the arena where various kinds of creative science and technology compete and a large stage where the Huangpu District accelerates its integration into the world, nurtures enterprises with international competitiveness, creates its name brands, sets forth new forward-looking concepts of modern society, builds a classic Huangpu and achieves a great leap forward of economic development.

The area will continue to extend its functions such as commerce, business, hotel, exposition and culture for the post-Expo and post-Eleven Five-Year Program era, magnify the convergence and radiation effect of the construction of the World Expo site and make itself a “booster” of Huangpu District economic sustained development and a modernized exposition and cultural zone embodying future development motive force.

The Development Belt along the Huangpu River on the Bund: The 6.3-kilometer waterside line along the Huangpu River on the Bund from the mouth of the Suzhou Creek to the Jiangbian Road is the most vigorous golden waterside line in Shanghai , with an area of 1.2 square kilometers.

During the period of the Eleven Five-Year Program, the belt will accelerate the construction of key projects, upgrade its financial service functions, expand its business and commercial functions, add feature entertainment functions, explore exposition and cultural functions and make itself a highlight of comprehensive development of the waterside line along the Huangpu River and a growth pole of Huangpu District future development.

The Huangpu District Eleventh Five-Year Program
The Huangpu District will adhere to implementing the primary strategy of revitalizing the city through science and education in line with Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three Represents, under the command of the scientific outlook on development and with the aim at building a harmonious society. Under the leadership of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Government, around Shanghai strategic objectives of taking the lead in building a well-off society and achieving modernization and accelerating the building of Shanghai into an international economic, financial, trade and shipping center, the district will seize the three strategic opportunities of the all-round entry into the WTO, the comprehensive development of the waterside line along the Huangpu River and the preparations for the World Expo. It will put people first, change concepts, give play to its advantages, integrate the resources, integrate itself into the whole city, carry forward the pioneering and innovative spirit, extend in depth the central city district functions, devote major efforts to push forward the renovation of old downtown areas, complete the relocation and supporting project construction of the World Expo site in an all-round way and promote the all-round and coordinated economic and social development.

Overall Objectives: From the height of strengthening Shanghai's international competitiveness, the district will upgrade its comprehensive service functions in an all-round way, strengthen the central city district's core competitiveness, concentrate its efforts on building a classic Huangpu, build itself into a highland of concentrated modern services, a center of developing commerce, trade and tourism, a window of displaying Shanghai's style of culture, a homeland of suitable human habitat, a core functional area of a modernized international metropolis embodying Shanghai overall image of prosperity, flourishing, civilization and harmony and make the Huangpu people live and work in peace and contentment at a higher level.

By 2010, the district will basically form the modern industrial structure mating with the modernized central city district, the modernized city infrastructure system integrating itself into the system of the whole city and the social undertaking layout framework harmonious with economic development.

Prosperity and Flourishing: Insisting on keeping economic development as the central task, pushing forward the rapid development of Huangpu economy through developing the district's convergence functions, innovation functions, radiation functions and guiding functions, concentrating the high-energy-level essential factors, opening wider to the outside world, strengthening the district's economic development tension and forming a virtuous circle mechanism; building the Huangpu District into a core functional district embodying a modernized international metropolitan service level with a strong comprehensive function and much convergence and radiation effect through strengthening the city form construction, promoting space development, improving supporting hardware facilities and establishing a good city district environment with coordinated architectural styles and bright and beautiful landscape and scenes.

Civilization and Harmony: Insisting on putting people first, devoting major efforts to push ahead with the development of political civilization, spiritual civilization and ecological civilization, paying attention to strengthening social management and public services, coordinating the development of various social undertakings, improving living conditions and environment of residents while accelerating economic development; making efforts to enhance social vitality and maintain social equity, positively advocating scientific ways of living embodying modern civilization, health and progress, achieving harmonious intergrowth between human and nature, human and environment, human and human and government and masses of the people, improving human quality in an all-round way and building a modernized city district with democracy, rule of law, equity, justice, honesty, friendly affection, vitality, safety, order and harmony between human and nature.

 Economic Indicators: The gross district product is expected to increase by an average annual growth rate of 8-10% to reach 64-70 billion yuan in 2010.

The district financial revenue is expected to increase by an average annual growth rate of 10-12% to hit 6.2-6.8 billion yuan in 2010.

The total volume of retail sales of consumer goods is expected to increase by an average annual growth rate of 5% to hit 38 billion yuan in 2010.

The domestic investment absorbed in the coming five years will be accumulated to 25 billion yuan and the contracted foreign direct investment absorbed in the coming five years will be accumulated to US$ 1 billion.

The old housing demolished in the coming five years will be accumulated to 1.38 million square meters.

The new jobs and the registered unemployed each year will meet the target requirements of the municipal government.