The study of history of Chinese water conservancy in the modern sense starts from 1930s.Its main study object is technology.Chinese water conservancy study have broken through the field of study in the past since 1980s.Not only involved the technology,but also the economy,society,environment and so on.It becomes a classical interdisciplinary subject.Because of the research methods and perspective of multidisciplinary,the study of history of Chinese water conservancy has reached fruitful achievements,but also problems.But,there is no summary about history of Chinese water conservancy up to date.I hope this paper have benefit for it.