Drone Videos of Shanghai

Explore the great Chinese metropolis of Shanghai in this compilation video, which was created using footage highlights from the "Drone Videos of Shanghai" collection.  You'll soar past the Shanghai Tower and the Shaghai World Financial Center, see the lights of the Bund, fly over the Huangpu River, and more.

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Top contributor denisbarbas brings us this stunning drone video of the city of Shanghai, China.  At the :16, you'll get a great view of the trapezoidal opening atop the Shanghai World Financial Center, which was the second-tallest building in the world when it opened in 2008 and remains Shanghai's second-tallest as of 2025.  Starting at :27, you'll get a close-up of the spherical Oriental Pearl Tower, one of Shanghai's most iconic sites.  At :48, you'll see Shanghai Tower, Shanghai's tallest and the third-tallest in the world as of 2025.  

This FPV drone tour of Shanghai, China by top AirVuz contributor T-christ-T earned a spot as a Drone Video of the Week Finalist in October of 2024.  In the opening shot, you'll fly through the trapezoid aperture atop the 101 story Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai's second-tallest building, which has a roof height of 1.6k ft. (487 m).  In a single shot, you'll then fly over the neighboring Jin Mao Tower, the city's third-tallest.  Other highlights include a fly-by of the Oriental Pearl Tower at the 1:00 mark.  

Prepare to be amazed by this fantastic nighttime drone video from Shanghai, China, compliments of top AirVuz contributor and former Drone Video Award winner Panvelvet.  The video will take you over and through this fantastically modern city, now home to one of the world's most impressive skylines.  Shot during the evening hours and expertly edited (including some brilliant timelapses), you will be taken through the canyons created by its giant structures, over the historical Bund area, and along the Huangpu River.    

Top contributor Panvelvet used the Chinese city of Shanghai as the backdrop for this epic drone film, shot over a period of 24 hours.  Filmed in a fully controlled environment, the video shows an actor standing atop several of the more prominent towers in this megalopolis, which as of the end of 2018 had over 150 buildings of at least 150 meters (about 480 ft.) in height, fourth amongst the world's cities.  This video was a winner at the second annual Drone Video Awards Winner in the Originality category.

Former Drone Video Award Winner panvelvet brings us this spectacular DVOW winning video from Shanghai, as the great city was lit up by a massive laser show to celebrate the 70th birthday of the People's Republic of China.  Part of the video was shot from the Bund on the western side of the Hunagpu River looking toward the skyscrapers of the ultra-modern Pudong district on the river's opposite side.  Other parts were shot from Pudong itself, with some magnificent footage of some of the world's tallest skyscrapers lit up by lasers.  

Following a multi-decade boom, Shanghai (China's largest city) has one of the world's most impressive skylines.  With several skyscrapers topping 300m (1k ft), this city on the Yangtze River Delta has regained its once considerable role as a world city.  In this drone video, AirVuz contributor Mattcoq flies his DJI Phantom 4 Professional over China's largest city, including the Bund, the massive highways leading into the city center, and the Huangpu River, which divides the western side of the city from Pudong.

Panvelvet is one of the top content creators in the AirVuz community, with multiple Drone Video of the Week/Month wins, a Drone Video Award, and most recently a win at the 6th annual New York City Drone Film Festival.  All good reasons to check out this stunning piece from the great Chinese metropolis of Shanghai.  The video features human subjects perched atop some of the skyscrapers and bridges of the city on the Yangtze River Delta, China's largest and one of the world's most important financial centers. 

Former Drone Video of the Week Finalist Finalist Mattcoq brings us this outstanding aerial video of the great city of Shanghai, China at dawn.  At the :47 mark, you'll see the 1920's era General Post Office Building, which lies on the banks of Suzhou Creek.  At the 1:25 mark, there's a great shot looking east toward the mouth of Suzhou Creek as it empties into the Huangpu River, and beyond that the great skyscrapers of the Pudong District.  Further on, you'll see some of the city's massive transportation infrastructure and high-rise residences.

Former Drone Video of the Week Finalist Mattcoq brings us this fantastic nighttime drone video of the city of Shanghai, China.  Most of the video was shot looking towards Lujiazui, a peninsula in the district of Pudong which has become the city's main financial district.  Located just across the Huangpu River from the historic Bund, Lujiazui is home to some of the city's tallest buildings.  Seen left to right in the video, they are Oriental Pearl Tower, Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, and Shanghai Tower.

Top contributor Mattcoq created this gorgeous drone video of modern Shanghai, China, one of the world's largest and most impressive cities.  In one video, you'll be able to see many of the top sights of this metropolis on Yangtze River Delta including the Nanpu Bridge on the Huangpu River,, Shanghai Tower (the world's second tallest building as of early 2019), Shanghai World Financial Center, the Oriental Pearl Tower (whose ball-shaped observation deck is one of the city's most iconic sights), and more.  

Top contributor and pilot Mattcoq used a DJI Phantom 3 drone to create this remarkable aerial video of two of China's most famous bridges, both of which cross the Huangpu River in Shanghai.  The opening shot is of the 2003 vintage Lupu Bridge; its main spain of 550 meters (1.8k ft.) makes it the second longest arch bridge span in the world.  The latter part of the video shifts to the Yangpu Bridge; its unique design led it to appearing at the #9 spot on CNN's 2017 survey of the world's most amazing bridges.

By almost any available measure, China has become the workshop of the world over the past several decades.  In heavy industries like steel, coal, and other types of metallurgy, its annual national production is multiples of the highest levels ever achieved by western countries.  In this video, top AirVuz contributor Mattcoq gives us a drone's eye view of some of China's many smokestacks on the Yangtze River near Shanghai, the country's largest city, which lies on China's east (Pacific Ocean) coast.   

Prepare to be blown away by this fantastic first person view (FPV) drone video from Shanghai by brand-new contributor cycle1337.  This very talented FPV pilot was able to "dive" the two tallest buildings in China's largest city: Shanghai Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center.   The former stands 632 meters tall (2.073k ft.) and is the world's second-tallest building as of 2020.  The latter was Shanghai's tallest from 2008-15 and is distinguished by its "window" which you'll see in an epic fly-through starting at about the :27 mark.

Prepare to be amazed by this stunning first person view (FPV) drone diving video from one of the world's tallest skyscrapers, compliments of top AirVuz contributor and FPV pilot Livyu FPV.  He was able to dive the 128 story Shanghai Tower, which has a roof height of just under 2.1k ft. (632 m).  When it was completed in 2015, it was the world's second-tallest building.  As of 2024, it's the world's third-tallest (surpassed only by Dubai's Burj Khalifa and Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka 118).  It's located in Shanghai's Pudong District.  

Former Drone Video of the Week Finalist Mattcoq used a DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone to create this excellent nighttime drone video of the great city of Shanghai, China.  Starting at about the 1:00 mark, there's a great shot looking northeast towards the city's Pudong District.  Here's you'll see the city's three tallest buildings: right to left, the 128 story Shanghai Tower (at just over 2.05k ft. or 632 meters, the world's third-tallest building as of early 2022), the Shanghai World Financial Center, and Jin Mao Tower.  

Top contributor Mattcoq brings us this fantastic drone video of one of the Lujiazui district of Shanghai, China.  Located on the eastern side of the Huangpu River, Lujiazui was developed beginning in the 1990's as a new financial district within China's unoffiial commercial and financial capital.  It lies opposite the Huangpu from the Bund, which had been the city's main financial district in pre-Communist days.  It's now home to some of the city's tallest skyscrapers, including Shanghai Tower - China's tallest building as of 2020.  

Contributor Alexaroundtheworld created this magnificent drone video of Shanghai, China.  The highlight of the video is a climb up to the top of the city's three tallest buildings, located right next to each other in the Pudong District: the 128 story, 632 meter (just under 2.1k) Shanghai Tower, opened in 2015; the Shanghai World Financial Center (2008, 492 m/1.6k ft.), and Jin Mao Tower (1999, 421 m/1.4k ft.).   The last was the filming location for a famous jump scene by Tom Cruise in  Mission: Impossible III (2006).

The most important river of Shanghai, China is actually not the Yangtze,  the country's longest river is not actually the defining river of Shanghai.  That title goes to the Huangpu River, a much shorter waterway which flows through central Shanghai from south to north and dividing the great city into Pudong (to the east) and Puxi (to the west) before emptying into the Yangtze.  In this video, you'll get a bird's eye look at this important waterway, compliments of contributor and drone pilot Mattcoq.

Fomer Drone Video of the Week Finalist Mattcoq brings us this excellent drone video from Shanghai as China's largest city was in the sixth week of a lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022.  The video was shot over Puxi, which is the part of Shanghai lying on the West Bank of the Huangpu River and encompasses the historic heart of the city.  While China had been able to contain the novel coronavirus for much of 2020 and 2021, the Omicron wave washed over many of its largest cities in early 2022, triggering massive lockdowns.    

The Huángpǔ River is a 70-mile-long river that traverses through Shanghai, China. It is the last significant tributary of the Yangtze River (China's longest waterway) before she empties into the belly of the South China Sea (an extension of the Pacific Ocean). It is easy to see its power and importance in this drone video by Mattcoq. His Mavic 2 Pro shows the flowing river as it winds its way through mainland China's most important financial center and its second largest city after Beijing.  

Top contributor prtzy created this brilliant nighttime drone video of Shanghai, China.  The video opens with a shot of the Lupu Bridge, which spans the Huangpu River just south of (upstream from) the center city.  Then you'll head downstream a bit for an epic shot of the newer (and much longer) Huangpu Bridge, and behind it the full skyscraper-studded Shanghai skyline.  Towering above all is the 128 story Shanghai Tower, whose architectural height of 632 meters (just under 2.1k ft.) makes it the world's second-tallest as of 2019.  

New contributor TonyVisionSha takes us on a thrilling first person view (FPV) drone dive down one of the tallest skyscrapers in Shanghai, China.  The building is Jin Mao Tower, which has a roof height of just under 1.4k ft. (420 m) and has 88 stories plus an additional five stories in its spire.  When it was completed in 1999, it was China's tallest building.  As of 2024, it's Shanghai's third-tallest behind the nearby Shanghai Tower and Shanghai World Financial Tower, which are located in the Pudong District, east of the Huangpu River.

Talk about an epic drone selfie!  In this remarkable drone video by contributor Chernobro, you will see the great Chinese city of Shanghai from an entirely new perspective.  Under carefully controlled conditions, he climbed to the top of a tower overlooking the city and filmed himself with a drone.  The drone circles him, and as you watch you will see some of the world's tallest buildings in the background, the tallest being the World Financial Center, the 2nd highest skyscraper on earth as of early 2019.

Today's racing drones equipped with first person view gear are capable of diving the world's tallest skyscrapers.  In this piece by FPV pilot drew.drones, you'll get a one-of-a-kind perspective of one of China's tallest skyscrapers: the 101 story Shanghai World Financial Center.  Standing 492 meters (1.6k ft.), it was the city's tallest building when completed in 2008.  The second-tallest as of 2020, its trapezoid-shaped hole makes it one of the world's most distinctive modern skyscrapers.

Contributor Mattcoq used a drone to create this fascinating aerial video of a major urban redevelopment project in Shanghai, China's largest city.   Suzhou Creek is one of the waterways which passes through central Shanghai.  With China's rapid industrialization, the creek became terribly polluted.  As part of a gigantic environmental remediation project, thousands of "green" housing units have been built here, part of Shanghai's ongoing transition to a service-oriented economic base.

Take a first person view (FPV) drone tour of one of China's most popular museums, compliments of AirVuz contributor and pilot TonyVisionSha.  The video was filmed at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in the Pudong district east of the Huangpu River, near Century Park.  The museum was opened in several stages beginning in 2001.    Drawing several million visitors annually, the museum is one of roughly 300 sites around the country which are rated AAAAA (the highest level) by China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism.