The invention provides a method for selecting a hoisting steel wire rope. The method comprises the following steps that according to rope diameter parameters, rope core type parameters, minimum breaking tensile force parameters and unit quality parameters of a plurality of steel wire ropes included in selected steel wire rope models, a steel wire rope characteristic table is established; accordingto the length of the required steel wire rope, the net weight of each steel wire rope under the length is obtained according to the unit mass of the steel wire rope in the steel wire rope characteristic table; according to the formula P = Fmin/eta-Ggss*eta, an allowable hoisting load P of each steel wire rope is calculated, wherein and Fmin is the minimum breaking tensile force of the steel wirerope, eta is the safety coefficient and is selected according to the industry standard requirement, and the Ggss is the steel wire rope net weight; a suspension point load P0 of the steel wire rope isacquired, wherein P0 is a suspension point counter-force value or a single-point suspension load value; and a hoisting steel wire rope is selected from the steel wire ropes meeting the condition thatthe P is larger than the P0. The method for selecting the hoisting steel wire rope, the steel wire rope is selected after a net weight load of the steel wire rope is removed, the selection accuracy of the steel wire rope can be improved, repeated checking and calculation are avoided, and the selection process of the steel wire rope is simplified.