檢視中國的城市化進程與全球城市化研究將為被忽略的地區帶來新的視野 / The examination of urbanization processes in China with the combination of global and world city research are expected to provide new insights to this neglected area. Global city idea had often emerged in contemporary city development plans, mainly indicating rapid modernization efforts via building a so-called global city. The wide-scale embeddedness of this idea suggests that it became the synonym of international competitiveness and prosperity. The best example of that is China with its massive network of cities. Until recently public datas were less accessible regarding the major Chinese cities, sith the reasons behind their growth and properity are still widely unexplored. The goal of this thesis would be to collect data and examine the most relevant segments of a specific Chinese city, namely Shanghai in the context of global city formation and competition. In order to justify or deny the overall achievements of industrial and spatial restructuring, the thesis will rely on the latest datas, including the related theoretical aspects and two short case studies. There are multiple layers of conducting city-related research from which, there are statistically less traceable ones. Thus, the intention of the thesis is to highlight two, internationally relevant and comparable areas, such as the financial industry and the newly upgraded free trade zone. According to the author’s intentions the strengths and the weaknesses of Shanghai as a global city will be empirically tested, while at the same time there will be a strong emphasis on the introduction of world- and global cities’ theoretical background as well. Within that the Chinese global city idea will be distinguished from its Western counterpart and the contraints of current political system will be pointed out in terms of operation or management. The main subject of inquiry would be to learn more about the extent of global city transformation in the city, compared to the general assumptions on an actual global city. Since this thesis has its own limitations both in size and data processing capability, thus it mainly analyzed and used second-hand sources to derive its conclusions. The main purpose of this work would be to contest the aspects of Shanghai’s global citiness.