Constructing an international consumption center city is an important approach for Guangzhou to integrate into the new development pattern and promote high-quality economic development. This article deeply analyzes the development status of Guangzhou’s constructing an international consumption center city from four aspects：comprehensive competitiveness，international influence，cultural and tourism consumption attractiveness，and commercial vitality. By comparatively analyzing the successful experiences of the internationally recognized consumption center cities such as New York，London，Paris，and Tokyo，it is found that Guangzhou has problems such as insufficient international influence and urban attractiveness，low influence of local brands，few high-end consumption resources，homogenization of consumption business districts，and the need to improve supporting policies and consumption environment. Finally，a series of countermeasures and suggestions are proposed to enhance Guangzhou’s international attractiveness and global consumption market competitiveness，including improving the city’s international reputation，exploring characteristic tourism resources，improving the aggregation degree of international brands，creating diversified and compound consumption business districts，innovating tax refund facilitation systems，and creating a first-class international consumption environment，in order to promote Guangzhou realizing the strategic goal of building into an international consumption center city.