Thanks to the high-speed development of urbanization of China, a large number of old industrial heritages are facing with the reuse problems. Shanghai, as the most important industrial city in modern China, it leaves China huge precious industrial heritage architecture. In recent years, Shanghai is walking in front of the country in reusing industrial heritage Architecture, and the practices of reusing industrial heritage architecture are endless. Firstly, the paper reviews and summaries the concept, meaning, development, and status of reusing industrial heritage architecture, and does a brief of the general strategies and methods in internationally reusing. Secondly, the paper does a detailed survey, analysis and summary of the current situation of Shanghai's reusing industrial heritage.