The invention discloses a high-efficiency environment-friendly pulse plating metallurgy method for performing thick chromium plating based on trivalent chromium in a sulfate system. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps: dissolving rare earth oxides in an acid, so as to obtain a rare-earth salt solution; dissolving chromium sulfate salt, aluminum sulfate, boric acid, a complexing agent and methanol with water, and adding the rare-earth salt solution, so as to obtain a chromium sulfate salt-aluminum sulfate-boric acid-complexing agent-methanol-rare-earth salt plating solution; electroplating a to-be-plated plating piece into the electroplating solution; controlling the electroplating process conditions as follows: the distance between a pulse electroplating power supply and a plating tank is 2-3m, a wire refers to a multi-stranded core wire, and an anode refers to a Cu-matrix coating electrode plate; the current density of a connecting wire is 28-90A / dm<2> and needs to be far higher than the average current, the pH value of the electroplating solution is 2-4, the temperature refers to 25-60 DEG C, the stirring speed is 100-600rpm, the plating time refers to 30-90 minutes, the pulse frequency refers to 100-500Hz, and the duty ratio is 5-100 percent; and washing the plating piece subjected to complete electroplating, and airing. The method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of coating flatness and compactness, good adhesiveness, high current efficiency, high environmental friendliness and the like.