An ultra high-strength hydraulic cement composition contains a binder,
fine aggregates, coarse aggregates, an antifoaming agent, water and a
specified admixture and has a unit amount of the binder in the range of
480-1800 kg/m.sup.3. Water and the binder are contained at a ratio of
10-25% and the admixture is contained in the amount of 0.2-3.5 weight
parts per 100 weight parts of the binder. The binder may be cement or a
mixture of cement and a microscopic powder admixture. The admixture is
one or more selected from reaction mixtures obtained by specified two
processes and partially or completely neutralized substances obtained
from such a reaction mixture through these two processes and also a
specified third process. The specified two processes include initiating a
radical copolymerization process of a radical polymerizable monomer
mixture containing maleic anhydride and a monomer of a specified kind in
a non-aqueous system in the presence of a non-aqueous radical initiator
and stopping the radical copolymerization reaction in its midst while the
inversion rate of polymerization is at a specified level by adding water
to the reaction system to thereby obtain a reaction mixture. The
specified third process is for partially or completely neutralizing the
reaction mixture.