The invention provides an MVR (Mechanical Vapor Recompression) system with external energy compensation and belongs to the technical field of industrial evaporation or concentration. The MVR system comprises a water inlet pump, a heat exchanger, a water inlet valve, a circulating water pump, an evaporator, a compensation heating device, an MVR steam compressor, a water outlet pump and the like. According to the MVR system, secondary steam is subjected to residual heat recycling by utilizing an MVR steam compressor and an external heat source is provided for startup and normal operation of an MVR steam compression and recycling system by adopting the compensation heating device, so that the startup problem of an existing MVR evaporation and concentration system is solved, the problem that the persistence is poor, caused by the fact that zero loss cannot be realized is solved, and disadvantages that raw steam is directly introduced so that steam with different pressure is inconvenient tomix and switch and the like are also overcome, so that the stability, persistence, reliability and efficiency of the operation of the MVR system are effectively improved. The whole system has the advantages of small size, low cost, less energy requirements, simplicity in operation, energy saving and environment protection and the like and is very suitable for being popularized and applied in a large scale.