中华民族具有五千年悠久的发展历史，在此过程中保留下来的古代工程和建筑是对中国古代文明的真实反映，是中国古代人民智慧结晶和思想精髓所在，体现了中华民族传统的思想观念。本文列举了古代中国具有代表性的工程和建筑，阐述了他们的工程技巧和建筑特征，在此基础上总结了中国古代工程和建筑的特点，并进一步分析了古代工程管理思想的精髓，即“以人为本”与“天人合一”。本文基于我国工程和建筑发展历史、及其特点的研究，目的是为了把握工程管理的本质特征，为发展现代工程管理事业提供基础支撑。

The Chinese nation has a long history of five thousand years in that the preserved ancient engineering and construction wonders are true reflections of the ancient Chinese civilization,wisdom and ideological essence and the traditional Chinese ideas and concepts. This paper lists a number of the wonders representing the highest achievements in the history of ancient Chinese engineering and construction and expounds their engineering skills and construction (architectural) features. On this basis, the characteristics of engineering and construction in ancient China are summed up with further analyzing of the essence in ancient engineering management thoughts,that is,the "people-oriented" and "harmonization between the people and the nature". Based on the study of history and characteristics of Chinese engineering and construction the purpose is to provide the basic support for grasping the essence of engineering management and developing of modern engineering management.

何继善（1934－），男，湖南湘乡县人，中国工程院院士，中南大学教授，主要研究方向为工程项目管理