The “Sino-European Historic Urban Landscape Conservation” Symposium organized by College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University together with WHITRAP Shanghai was held in the Tongji campus in the afternoon of 13 January 2014. Professor Lu Yongyi and Doctor Li Xin chaired the meeting. Professor Michael Trieb from the University of Stuttgart, Urban Planning Institute, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, gave a presentation on old town conservation in Germany, followed by some comments of Professor Ruan Yisan from Tongji University. Other participants, including Mr. Wang Anshi, Chief Engineer of Shanghai Municipal Housing, Land and Resource Administration, the Vice Director of WHITRAP Shanghai Doctor Ron Van Oers, Professor Zhang Song and other teachers from Tongji, joined the follow-up discussion on the policy, spatial and cultural topics under historic conservation in both theoretical and practical aspects.