Since the 1970s, the Bureau of Hydrology, Changjiang Water Resources Commission has carried out research on automatic flood reporting, innovation of hydrometry methods, and improvement of “one station, one policy” monitoring and reporting capabilities, laying a technical foundation for the development of hydrologic survey; the construction of Web-based intelligent hydrometry system (“WISH” system) has been carried out, laying an information foundation for hydrologic survey. Through the research and practice in recent years, the management system of “Mainly patrol survey, combining standing survey with patrol survey” has been gradually established. However, while liberating the productive forces, hydrologic survey also brings some new problems, such as the marginalization of survey stations, hollow management, low survey efficiency and idle assets. Therefore, based on a comprehensive understanding of the management of grass-roots stations, equipment and facilities, and the development of patrol survey, the paper studied and discussed the management mode of hydrologic survey driven by the new generation of information technology in combination with new technologies such as computer vision and machine learning.