With the development and the pass of time, Yangpu Riverside Area should better make use of the technological advantage of the Yangpu national innovation pilot district, the talent advantage of the Yangpu University Town and the featured inheritance of the riverside industry, to plan the ‘Science Innovation Center’ and the ‘Cultural History Gallery’ with rich deposits and harmony between people and the environment and to achieve the transformation from an old industrial district into an aggregation area of the modern service industries. And three targets are made:
To build the intellectual Riverside area through actively attracting the high-technology industry that faces the international markets and talents from universities in Yangpu District, centering on the knowledge-intensive system of science innovation and fashion design whose purpose is in production, financing, trade and intermediation, including neighbourhood that consists of residence, employment and service as well as the slow-type intellectual traffic systems. Judging from the historical feature of the Yangpu Riverside Area, as a riverside area whose functional framework is horizontal arranged, Yangshupu Road has linked about a dozen of factories along the river bank while the inner area of the riverside area is the residence of the workers. Yangshupu Road acts as the border between the unite of the industry and the city and the separation of the function. This plan suggests that to use the industrial civilization as the bridge to rebuild the structure of Yangpu Riverside Area and promotes the upgrading and transition of the riverside industry, which means a update from ‘production’ into ‘intellectual production’.

To build the ecological Riverside area through using design ideas like low-impact exploitation and sponge city, maintaining the original terrain condition, so as to form a low-lying wetland that can collect rainwater. At the bottom of the pool, the sealing treatment to prevent it from penetrating isn’t applied so that the collected rainwater could penetrate into the soil freely. It could supply the underground water while at the same time, the problem of the low terrain of nearby residences and the heavy pressure of their water drainage. Also, the hydrologic system inside the area is promoted to achieve the effect of storing rainwater in heavy rain and delay the rainwater’s speed of entering the municipal pipe.
To build the artistic riverside area through the mechanical aesthetics, architectural details and outstanding decoration that are unique in the industrial time, presenting the unique examples of the modern architectural style features, or through contributing to forming the city feature that by making this area a recognizable sign in the district, the Yangpu Riverside Area would be rebuilt into a modern urban riverside resting area that consists of cultural innovative media, cultural tourism and the business trade.
Through building the intellectual Riverside area, the ecological Riverside area and the artistic riverside area, focusing on building the area functions led by technological commerce, featured finance, innovative design, artistic relaxation, rainwater garden and ecological buildings, building a waterside service-aggregation area that has rich deposits, flourishing industry and harmonious residence, so as to build the Yangpu Riverside Area a compound but dynamic riverside space----a historical cultural gallery with science fashion taste.