Urban management is a strategic task for Shanghai city in the 21 Century.Based on the analysis of the administrative system and administrative features of modern urban,and through comparison with advanced cities in the world,revealed the management status and the problems existing in the urban management of Shanghai city.The paper pointed out Shanghai city must continue to optimize and explore the modern cities of first-class management in safety management of the top-level design,City infrastructure of social market management,city environmental governance and city social administration in order to construct a modern city of first-class management. <<