The invention relates to a tube-shell type heat exchanger which used the U-shaped cross-helical tube, involving an engine exhaust recycle heat exchanger. For improving the engine exhaust recycle system, accelerating the exhaust cooling and increasing the heat exchange efficiency. The heat exchanger includes the heat exchange tube, shell and the tube board, the heat exchange tube is the U shaped siphon, whose two ends fixed on the same tube board, the heat exchange tube is the stainless steel tube which has the entad raised cross-helical groove on the surface, the cross is the 'X'-shaped, the section shape of the stainless steel pipe is a special flat shape, and the height and width of the section shape in the flat shape heat exchange tube are unlikeness. Because of the application of the cross-helical heat exchange tube, the tube inside and outside produce the turbulent flow, not easy to dirty and increase the heat exchange efficiency. The heat exchanger has a compact structure, is particularly suitable for the exhaust gas recycle coolers of a vehicle engine, reduce the discharge of the nitrogen oxygen compound and enhance the exhaust discharge performance indicators, at the same time, the invention can also be used as the mid cooler of a turbocharger system to improve the engine performance.