The invention relates to a method for producing L-4-hydroxyisoleucine by a microbial enzyme conversion method. The method comprises the following steps: 1, culturing a mature bacterial strain; 2, grafting mature escherichia coli recombinant bacteria which are capable of inducing production of L-4-hydroxyisoleucine into a fermentation tank, and carrying out fermentation culture, wherein the temperature of the fermentation process is controlled in two stages, i.e., 4 to 36 DEG C in the earlier stage and 30 to 32 DEG C in the later stage; 3, collecting thallus after fermentation, adding phosphate buffer and washing, then adding alpha-oxoglutarate, isoleucine, ferrous sulfate, magnesium sulfate and ascorbic acid, and carrying out forced ventilation for catalysis; 4, removing bacteria from the catalytic liquid with a ceramic membrane, filtering with an ultrafiltration membrane, decoloring with activated carbon, desalting with faintly acid cation exchange resin, adsorbing effluent with 732 cation exchange resin and eluting with ammonia water, carrying out evaporation concentration and recrystallization to obtain the L-4-hydroxyisoleucine. The preparation method disclosed by the invention is simple and efficient in reaction system and simple and feasible in extraction process. The conversion rate is up to over 95.4 percent, and the purity of the product can reach over 98 percent.