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General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the important concept of “People’s city is built by the people，people’s city serves the people” during his inspection in Yangpu Binjiang，Shanghai on November 2，2019，and since then building a good people’s city has become an important goal of the urban development. The connotation of Shanghai ecological city should be a livable city with harmony between man and nature，a beautiful city with a healthy ecological environment，a vibrant city with a prosperous ecological economy，a trendy city with fashionable ecological culture，and a co-governed city with advanced ecological governance. By constructing the “Urban Green Prosperity Index” from the dimensions of economic foundation，green innovation，ecological livability，and environmental governance，and evaluating and comparing Shanghai’s achievements in building an ecological city，it is found that Shanghai is in a leading position among city clusters in the Yangtze River Delta，but it also faces many challenges in terms of per capita ecological space，industrial resource and energy efficiency，and environmental infrastructure. To boost the construction of an ecological city，Shanghai should control the population size and the number of industrial enterprises from the source，implement stricter environmental standards，mobilize the whole society to invest in improvement of resources and environmental efficiency，smooth the mechanism for the realization of the value of ecological products，especially the market mechanism，and promote the modernization of environmental governance system and governance capabilities，relying on closer cooperation in ecological and environmental protection and green development in the Yangtze River Delta.