BIM has brought the revolution to the traditional construction industry.While the application of BIM in waterway infrastructure is currently left behind when compared to building domain,to solve this problem,this paper analyses the state of the art of the global BIM application,technical policy and technical standard,and the comparative analysis is conducted.On this basis,recommendations including standard research and development,key technologies,sustainable development,policy making,selection of exemplar projects and roadmap development are proposed to facilitate the comprehensive industry BIM implementation in China.