徐光启是我国明代晚期杰出的农业科学家。他撰写的《农政全书》集我国古代农业科学之大成,是我国不可多得的古代农业专著。该书中的水利思想十分丰富,主要有对水利重要性的认识,对北方水利和南方水利提出不同的治理方法,水利工程建设和用水管理。这些思想对现在农业仍有很重要的作用。 Xu Guangqi is an outstanding agricultural scientist in late Ming Dynasty in China. He wrote “The Complete Works of Agriculture” set the ancient Chinese agricultural science, is our rare ancient monographs of agriculture. The book is very rich in water conservancy ideas, mainly on the importance of water conservancy, the North Water Resources and South Water proposed different methods of governance, water conservancy construction and water management. These ideas still play an important role in agriculture.