The invention discloses a method for preparing a lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide ternary cathode material in liquid-phase sugar coating and spray drying manners. The method comprises the steps of firstly mixing sulphate liquids of Ni, Co and Mn, performing a coprecipitation reaction under an alkaline condition to prepare a ternary composite precursor (NixCoyMnz)(OH)2, filtering, washing, drying, adding the ternary composite precursor, a soluble metal lithium compound, a rare earth compound to a sugar-dissolved solvent, uniformly mixing, and spray drying to obtain a sugar-coated rare-earth-element-doped ternary precursor, finally performing high-temperature calcination to obtain a rare-earth-element-doped ternary material LiNixCoyMnzRnO2, wherein R is a doped rare earth element, the sum of x, y and z is equal to 1, and n is not less than 0.002 and is not greater than 0.1. According to the method for preparing the lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide ternary cathode material in the liquid-phase sugar coating and spray drying manners, sugar coating is utilized, so that the dissipation of pungent smell is reduced in a spray drying process; the prepared stoichiometric-ratio ternary material has the advantages that the secondary particle dispersity is good, the size is uniform, the infiltration of electrolyte is facilitated, the diffusion rate of lithium ions is increased basically, and the impedance of the lithium ions during diffusion is reduced, so that the electrical property of a material is improved, and the stable production is convenient.