The construction of city culture space is one of the important strategies to enhance the identification of city culture and build the competitive advantages of a city in the context of globalization. Jinan has been selected as a candidate city of Culture Captial of East Asia in 2022. The main blueprint of the overall thought and arrangement for the shaping of city culture space is as follows. Taking building cultural brands with distinctive characters，cultural services with high qualities，and cultural development and foreign exchanges with high level as the goal，it revolves around a cultural core layer，three cultural driving axes and five cultural zones. With the construction of differentiated cultural zoning and the diversified presentation of city culture，a colorful and vibrant city culture space will be shaped to help the application and construction of “Culture Capital of East Asia”.