上海環球金融中心喺1997年開工，1997年8月27日奠基，原計劃高度460米，地上94層，花費81.7億文人民幣（12億美元），但後尾因受1997年亞洲金融風暴嘅影響，工程一度停咗6年。去到2003年2月13號復工嗰時，因為設計高度俾其他摩天大廈築計劃超咗，復工後嘅大廈改咗設計方案，加咗7層（32米），即係地上101層，有492米咁高。佢喺2007年9月14號封咗頂，喺2008年8月28號完工、開幕，2008年8月30號正式對外營業。
The Shanghai World Financial Center started construction in 1997 and laid the foundation stone on August 27, 1997, with a height of 460 meters, 94 floors above ground, and a cost of 8.17 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion), but then due to the impact of the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the project was suspended for six years. When the work resumed on February 13, 2003, because the design height was exceeded by other skyscraper construction plans, the design plan of the building after the resumption of work was changed, and the building was added 7 floors (32 meters), which is 101 floors above ground, with a height of 492 meters. It was topped out on September 14, 2007, completed and opened on August 28, 2008, and officially opened to the public on August 30, 2008.