In the highway construction activities, the measurement and payment interestwork are perforative from beginning to end. The purpose is to identify and calculat the value of the project to be performed from the contractor. And according to the cords relating to the contract to pay the project cost. It directly reflects the economic interest of the contractor and the owner . Do well metric with pay, is playing a decisive role for engineering quality control, project progress and ensure the efficient use of funds. First in this paper , the concept, measurement and payment work flow, content, purpose and significance are described in detail, and enumerates some problems. Then, each of the measurement and payment are studied intensively. And from the contractor, the engineer and the employer ,the three angles analysed how to strengthen the measurement and payment management and combined with the actual case theory practice in the end.