The invention discloses a half-portal crane with a lifting trolley and a cantilever beam hanging balance weight. A half portal is composed of an end beam, two main beams and a support frame; walking boards are arranged on the outer side faces of the two main beams, and the outer portion of one walking board is connected with a supporting power frame; rails at the upper portions of the two main beams are connected with the lifting trolley and a running trolley; the lifting trolley is provided with a lifting-hook craning lifting device; the outer sides of the two main beams are each provided with a steel rail with the rail face formed downwards, and the steel rails are parallel to the rails; the two sides of the running trolley are connected with two reverse rolling wheel devices respectively, and the reverse rolling wheel devices are hooked and overlapped on the steel rails to run; a rotating mechanism is arranged on the running trolley; the lower end of a derrick shaft in the rotatingmechanism is connected with a cantilever member, and the upper end of the derrick shaft in the rotating mechanism is connected with a safety rule; the balance weight is hung at the end, close to a hanging base, of a cantilever beam in the cantilever member, the other end, close to a hanging base, of the cantilever beam in the cantilever member is connected with an electric hoist, the electric hoist can horizontally move along the cantilever beam, and the cantilever beam is located at the lower portions of the main beams, can extend out of a workshop to work, and can rotate on the horizontal plane.