The invention provides a white-light 
infrared up-conversion composite 
luminescent material with a core-shell structure. The 
composite material is characterized in that an 
infrared up-conversion nano-material is used as a core structure of the 
composite material; a 
quantum dot material with orange 
red fluorescence characteristics is used as a shell structure of the 
composite material; a chemical 
hydrothermal reaction is carried out so as to synthesize the white-light-emitting 
infrared up-conversion composite 
luminescent material with the core-shell structure; light with a 
wavelength of 980 nm is used as infrared excitation light; and the up-conversion nano-material is allowed to emit 
blue light under infrared excitation, and then 
quantum dots are allowed to emit orange 
red light under excitation of up-conversion 
blue light, so the infrared up-conversion composite 
luminescent material emitting 
white light is obtained. Since rare-earth up-conversion luminescent materials and 
semiconductor quantum dots are wide in photoluminescent band, high in 
color purity, brilliant in color, strong in light absorption capability, high in conversion efficiency, wide in the distribution area of emission 
wavelength, stable in physical and chemical performance, resistant to high temperature and capable of withstanding the action of large-power 
electron beams, high-energy 
radiation and strong 
ultraviolet light, the rare-earth up-conversion luminescent materials and 
semiconductor quantum dots are extensively applied to fields like illumination, displaying, development, 
medical radiography, detection and recording of 
radiation fields, etc., large in the scale of industrial production and 
consumer market and further applied to other emerging technical fields.