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Economists of modern societies recognize close relationship between social overhead capital(SOC) investment and development, growth of local area including state development progress. Thus, SOC is one of major factors for evaluation of a country's competitiveness and development level. SOC plays important role in development of a nation and the standard of living of its people. Therefore, SOC facilities are directly linked to a nation's industrial competitiveness and they are must-have facilities when it comes to state governance and maintenance. Historically, in each stage of ancient empires, modern states, imperialism and colonialism, construction and operation of certain SOC facilities must have been required to meet the demands of the particular stage's governance. Mankind has been not only using the natural resources but also improving the nature. With these nature improvements, human races tried to streamline governing of their nations. These were recorded in the pages of history as various types of SOC investment. Natural environment closely assimilates into military, politics, economy situation and SOC is functioning in promoting this process. Construction of SOC facilities in history is a good example of nature improvements by mankind. Particularly, when a strong state establishes, governing organization of the country actively participate in SOC investment as a way of state management and most of times, these investments were appeared as massive civil engineering works. Ancient empires followed the same procedures. In accordance with overall situation of the era, certain investment for public facility construction is required to the government or leading organization and it causes various changes to the society. By analyzing public facility construction of the generation, we can observe historical meanings in terms of cultural and social environment of the era which was necessary at that time. In this chapter, we will study major river control projects and relevant policies insisted and executed by various figures of Han Dynasty to analysis how public facility construction worked in the process of state governance and management in ancient Chinese empire. Investment for public facility construction takes large part of administration and management of a modern society these days as well. For these reasons, by analyzing types, effects and understanding of the governing party as per SOC facility construction in each stage (ancient empires, modern states, colonial period) of a state, we can observe what kinds of relationship is existing between SOC construction and nation management and governing and that is the purpose of this study.