A lithium ion battery module for an electric forklift truck, and a power supply box, which belong to the technical field of lithium ion batteries. The battery module comprises a housing and a batterypack in the housing; the battery pack comprises cells (11), an inter-cell heat insulation sheet (12), and a bottom surface insulating plate (13), a side surface insulating plate (15) and an end surface insulating plate (14) which are at the periphery of the cells (11), and a bus bar support (7) at the top; the cells (11) are square lithium iron phosphate batteries, and are grouped in a mode with each parallel branch having eight cells which are connected in series, a protruding spacer (18) is provided on the surface of the side surface insulating plate (15) and the surface of the bottom surface insulating plate (13), and the bus bar support (7) is provided with an inter-cell (11) connection bar (4) and an end connection bar (6). The power supply box comprises a box body (34), the box body(34) is internally provided with a high-voltage box (35), a BMS and the described lithium ion battery module for an electric forklift truck, a box cover (39) is provided on the box body (34), and an exhaust valve (50) is provided on the box cover (39). The lithium ion battery module and the power supply box both have high reliability in terms of structure and thermal performance.