The invention discloses a machining process for a rotating vane type hydraulic steering engine. The machining process comprises the following machining procedures: machining a rotor, a cylinder and a fixed blade, assembling the cylinder and the fixed blade, machining the rotor body of the rotating vane type hydraulic steering engine and machining a sealing groove of the fixed blade, wherein in the rotor body machining procedure, a moveable blade and a substrate are separately machined; in the cylinder machining procedure, the casted and molded blank is subjected to coarse turning, precise turning, pneumatic grinding, polishing with sand bags, round angle trimming and oil hole machining on a numerical control vertical lathe; in the machining procedure of the fixed blade of the rotating vane type hydraulic steering engine and the assembling procedure of the fixed blade and the cylinder, the casted and molded blank is subjected to coarse turning, ageing, semi-precise turning, linear cutting, cover plate mounting hole boring, clamping, boring first mounting threaded holes of the cylinder, fixing cylinder and the fixed blade, machining pin holes and threaded holes for assembling the cylinder and the fixed blade, clamping, hydraulic valve mounting hole drilling, sealing groove boring and milling, fixing the cylinder and the fixed blade, precise turning of inner holes of the assembled fixed blade, threaded holes and sealing groove machining, and facing-up with the cylinder cover, so as to finish machining.