Research conclusions: Based on the practice of constructions of the East －West Highway project and railway projects in Algeria with the European standards，in this paper，the introduction is respectively given to the system constitution and characteristics and the specialty features of both European and Chinese standard systems for geotechnical engineering．Especially，the comparative study is done on the differences between the two systems，and the advices are offered on revision of the stand system for geotechnical engineering in China for attracting the more attention to it by people of the same trade and offering references for the those design and survey institutes who aspire to work overseas．