The invention discloses a method for concentrating a high-salinity wastewater at low temperature. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps: feeding, single-effect evaporation, two-effect heat exchange, two-effect evaporation and separation. Especially, a steam machine recompression evaporator is adopted to carry out low-temperature evaporation concentration in the single-effect evaporation step, and the concentration effect is good. By adopting the method for concentrating the high-salinity wastewater at low temperature, the evaporation temperature of the high-salinity wastewater is reduced, energy is saved, the environment is protected, energy consumption for evaporating 1t of water is about 1/8 to 1/7 of that of the traditional evaporator, the method completely gets rid of dependence on a steam boiler, the MVR mainly consumes electric energy after consuming steam, an energy source is saved, the cost is reduced, the automatic degree is high, the work flow is full-automatic, and method is free of manual control.