Surrounded by water on three sides, the Metropolitan Service Center, which is also called Auto-CBD, is adjacent to the auto expo park. To equally emphasize the ecological integrity and the landscaping harmony of urban life, the Metropolitan Service Center is divided into “four areas, one center and one belt”, i.e. the Kernel Landmark Area, the Commercial Office Area, the Commercial & Residential Area and the Public House & Apartment Area, as well as the Culture And Relaxation Center and the Waterfront Sightseeing Belt. The total floor space is about 800,000 m².

Basing itself on the west part of Shanghai, the Metropolitan Service Center combines its operation with thedevelopment of the Yangtze River Delta and provides service for all parts of the country. Catering the world and backed up by the auto industry, it devotes itself to developing modern service industry with the auto media as the harbinger, the auto financial business and information service as the focus, the real estate industry as its platform and the intermediary service industry as its complementary element. Supported by the daily service industry, the intelligent, humanized and high grade ecotype international business and cultural kernel area takes the lead in promoting a healthy development of the Chinese auto market, and dedicates itself to creating a first class A-CBD brand of the world.

By 2010 the infrastructure, the landmark building, part of the commercial-purpose as well as the service-purpose buildings will have been completed, and the commercial area will have taken shape in the main.