The invention provides ternary high-nickel electrolyte and a high-nickel anode lithium ion battery containing the electrolyte. The ternary high-nickel electrolyte is characterized by comprising, by weight, 13-15% of lithium salt, 80-85% of a non-aqueous organic solvent and 0.1-5% of an additive; wherein the additive comprises vinylene sulfate, vinylene carbonate, succinonitrile, tris (trimethyl silicon-based) phosphorus, lithium bifluroflavin imide and lithium dioxalate borate; the lithium salt is lithium hexafluorophosphate; the non-aqueous organic solvent comprises a cyclic carbonate compound, dimethyl carbonate and ethoxy pentafluoro tripolyphosphate; the high-nickel anode lithium ion battery containing the ternary high-nickel electrolyte adopts anode slurry prepared from high-nickel ternary anode powder, a conductive agent, a functional composite binder, a solvent N-methyl pyrrolidone to prepare the anode membrane, the high-nickel anode lithium ion battery has excellent normal-temperature cycle performance, high-temperature cycle performance and high-temperature storage service life, and can obviously reduce the gas yield in the high-temperature storage process.