To establish a ‘dual circulation’ development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and domestic and international circulations promoting each other，it is a natural result of China’s rising under new historical context，which asks the local governments to identify themselves correctly and facilitate the ‘dual circulation’ proactively. Shanghai has established the strategy of ‘building central node of domestic circulation and strategic link between domestic and international circulations’. To borrow concepts from theory of social network analysis，this paper examines Shanghai’s efforts to build the ‘central node of domestic circulation’ from the perspectives of degree centrality，betweenness centrality and closeness centrality，and Shanghai’s efforts to build the ‘strategic link between domestic and international circulations’ from the perspectives of betweenness centrality，closeness centrality and eigenvector centrality. Based on theoretical examination，the author concludes that Shanghai has done a lot to facilitate the building of the ‘dual circulation’ development pattern. However，there are still huge room for improvement. The author argues that Shanghai should pay special attention to enhance its role as geographical，functional，and network central node of domestic circulation，meanwhile strengthening the interactive mechanism building between domestic and international circulations and ensuring the domestic circulation as the solid foundation of international circulation.