The invention provides a gas-electric hybrid reversing control system applicable to an engineering ship, and belongs to the technical field of ship power. The hybrid reversing control system comprises three ship reversing modes including a pure electric reversing mode, a diesel-power charging mode and a diesel-electric hybrid mode, and is composed of a bridge reversing control unit, a main propulsion control unit, an electric power reversing control unit, an engine, a clutch, a gear box, a propeller, an alternating-current and direct-current bus, an AC / DC rectifier, an inverter, a lithium battery energy storage unit and a reversing electromotor. According to the gas-electric hybrid reversing system, the ship reversing mode can be determined according to different reversing speeds and different degrees of ship reversing resistance under windy and wavy sea conditions, so that load fluctuations and fuel consumption increase caused by changeable working conditions in the reversing process are restrained effectively; and meanwhile, the reversing maneuverability and reversing capability of the engineering ship can be improved effectively through the application of different reversing modes.