The hydraulic ship lift is a new-type one with Chinese proprietary intellectual property rights without relative standards and rules about operation and maintenance for referrece.Based on the long-time project practice,debugging and trial navigation of Jinghong hydraulic ship lift,this paper expounds various operation ways and procedures including centralized control and terrain,automatic and single step,etc.systematically.Key checking items and safety control indices in the operation of the ship lift are summarized and key points for the device maintenance are also proposed to provide reference for the operation and maintenance of the hydraulic ship lift.