Abstract: With the start of western hydraulic project construction (rebuilding, expansion) and the fast development of our country economy, one batch of national large-scale water conservations engineering construction with the high of flood prevention standard , the environmental protection requirement  and the modernized level, which requests for the project managers¡¯ specialized level and experience is becoming higher. By analyzing oversea matured project management pattern which is used for many years and their advantage and disadvantage, considering main management pattern of domestic public welfare hydraulic construction projects, for the adaptation to characteristic and request of modern hydraulic engineering project management, the author believes the hydraulic engineering project management pattern must be innovated.

Keywords: Public welfare, hydraulic engineering, management