Currently, the construction industry is gradually developing to the direction of general contracting. For general contracting, the project manager should have a strong professional ability. However, the domestic project managers still have a large gap in knowledge system, professional quality and professional ability compared with the foreign project managers. Professional qualification standards based on the performance evaluation is the basic way to enhance the ability of project managers, which is still a blank in China. Therefore, it is necessary to study and establish the system. Based on drawing lessons from the British National Vocational Qualifications and the implementation of the general contracting system, we studied and established a vocational qualification standard system of general contracting project manager which has international characteristics. In addition, the empirical research was carried out. The aim is to retrain the applicants and to update their knowledge, so the international competitiveness of construction industry in our country can be improved.