The invention discloses a preparation method of a CdSe/BiOCl composite photocatalyst, belonging to the technical field of environmental material preparation. The method comprises the following concrete steps: dissolving cadmium chloride and methacrylic acid by using deionized water, stirring, then adjusting a pH value, injecting supernate formed after selenium powder and sodium borohydride are dissolved in deionized water, introducing nitrogen gas, heating, then cooling naturally, centrifugalizing, washing, and drying to obtain CdSe quantum dots; dissolving bismuth nitrate pentahydrate into amannitol solution, dropwise adding a saturated sodium chloride solution, stirring, then pouring the mixture into a reaction kettle, performing hydrothermal reaction, then cooling naturally, centrifugalizing, washing, drying and stoving to obtain BiOCl nanosheets; weighing the prepared CdSe quantum dots and BiOCl nanosheets, mixing and stirring the CdSe quantum dots and the BiOCl nanosheets in a water solution, then centrifugalizing, washing, drying and stoving to obtain the CdSe/BiOCl composite photocatalyst. The photocatalyst has a relatively good shape and stability, and visible light can beeffectively utilized to degrade tetracycline in antibiotic wastewater.