大坝是我国国民经济建设及社会发展的重要基础设施，提高和加强对大坝的安全认识和管理水平，对充分发挥大坝的作用具有重大意义。本文回顾了中国大坝安全状况，简述了大坝的安全管理，并为提高大坝安全与管理提出了一些认识。

Dam is a kind of key infrastructure of national economy construction in chin, so it is of great significance to improve and strengthen dam safety consciousness and management. Dam safety situation is reviewed and safety management is outlined in this paper, and new notion is presented for the improvement of dam safety and management.