The invention discloses a high selectivity composite gas sensitive material used for detection of acetic acid gas in the air, and belongs to the technical field of gas sensitive material. The high selectivity composite gas sensitive material is C3N4-ZnO, the mass amount of C3N4 accounts for 5 to 20% of the total material mass; a side-heating gas-sensitive sensor is prepared from the high selectivity composite gas sensitive material, at 300 DEG C working temperature, the sensitivity on 0.1ppm acetic acid ranges from 1.2 to 1.4, the sensitivity on 1000ppm acetic acid ranges from 290 to 350, thesensitivity on 1000ppm acetone, formaldehyde, ethanol, acetaldehyde, and ammonia gas is lower than 31, it is shown that C3N4 is capable of increasing the sensitivity of zinc oxide on acetic acid gas,and increasing gas sensitive selectivity of zinc oxide on acetic acid gas, so that rapid detection of the concentration of acetic acid in the air is realized, and influences of acetone, formaldehyde,ethanol, acetaldehyde, and ammonia gas are eliminated.