Abstract: Water conservancy industry core value is a component part of China’s socialist core values, is precious spiritual wealth of people’s water conservancy undertakings. Its main contents include promoting the beneficial and abolish the harmful, bringing benefits to the mankind, promoting the harmony between human and river water, ensuring safety. The water conservancy spirit is the spiritual core of the Chinese water culture, is the precious achievements created by ancient Chinese, and it accompanied by the excellent spirit of the Chinese nation. This Chinese water culture is full of positive energy of history. The water conservancy industry core value is the best inheritance of the Chinese water culture spiritual core, and it endows the Chinese water culture with the spirit of the times.