From 1993 to 2003, Urban greening construction in Shanghai achieved leap-forward development, with significant improvement of various indexes of green space and continuous optimization of a layout pattern of green space. The quality of the urban ecological environment realized breakthrough improvement. In 2003, Shanghai was successfully assessed as “Landscape Garden City”. By sorting out the common characteristics of green space planning, construction and management in the modernized international metropolis, this article analyzes the status quo of the urban green space in Shanghai in 1993, expounds the background, concept, index, layout pattern and coverage of the two green space system planning in Shanghai from 1993 to 2003, summarizes the construction achievements of the leap-forward development of urban green space in Shanghai, concludes its core strategies, as follows: guided by the concept of ecological landscape architecture, the construction of urban greening relies on scientific and technological innovation, regulates management system, cultivates the market operation mechanism, tightens up the legal system, mobilizes social power to actively participate in the greening construction, and ultimately forms a greening development road with the characteristics of the Shanghai and times.