The invention relates to a process and a device for smelting chromium irons and chromium-containing molten iron by using chromium ore powder, which belongs to metallurgical industry steel-making raw material. The process comprises the following steps: mixing chromium iron containing raw materials with reducing agent, solvent and catalyst to prepare ultra fine powder, mixing to make pelletizing materials, sending the pelletizing materials into a reducing furnace, obtaining chromium irons pellets after the reduction reaction, and directly adding reduced pellets into a lining electroslag furnace for being smelted into the chromium-iron alloy or the chromium-containing molten iron. The device comprises an internal-external heating vertical reducing furnace, a lining electroslag furnace and a residual heat recovery system. The invention has the advantages that: firstly, the reduction temperature is low, the speed is high, the energy consumption is reduced, the production cost is lowered, the production efficiency is high, and the uniformity of the quality is good; secondly, the degree of mechanization is high, the procedure is simple, the yield is large, the mass production can be performed; thirdly, the waste of raw materials is reduced, the environment pollution is lowered; fourthly, the source of raw materials adopting the chromium ore powder and chromium-containing waste, the cost is low; fifthly, the waste resource can be recycled so as to save the resource consumption; and sixthly, the high-temperature pellets are directly smelted by adopting the lining electroslag furnace, the heat efficiency is high, the energy consumption is low, the material purity is high and the quality is good, and the device is simple with less investment.