Shanghai Municipal Government

The Shanghai Municipal People’s Government is the municipal government of Shanghai, a municipality directly under China’s central government. The city government’s current overview says Shanghai had 16 administrative districts and a resident population of 24,854,100 at the end of 2025; it also places the municipality at the Yangtze River estuary and within the Yangtze River Delta. These are city-level facts that define the administrative scale in which the government operates. [1]

The General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government assists municipal leaders with daily work. Its published responsibilities include drafting and reviewing government documents, organizing meetings, coordinating implementation of decisions, supervising government transparency and information disclosure, promoting public data and e-government, coordinating administrative-approval reform, and reviewing the legality of major administrative decisions and normative documents. This office is therefore a central coordination and implementation node inside the municipal-government system. [2]

The government’s current policy agenda is visible in its 2026 planning materials. Shanghai has highlighted expansion of domestic demand, effective investment, public well-being and development of new quality productive forces, with artificial intelligence, integrated circuits and biomedicine identified as pioneering industries for the 15th Five-Year Plan period from 2026 to 2030. The city also identifies high-level opening-up and the Lin-gang Special Area, Pudong and the Hongqiao hub as strategic platforms for future reforms. [3] [4]