The invention relates to the technical fields of nucleation of a metal oxide nanometer catalyst, growth control, doping modification, environmental catalytic purification, micro-arc oxidization, nanometer materials and nano-technologies, in particular to an in-situ growth and doping modification method for the metal oxide nanometer catalyst. According to the in-situ growth and doping modificationtechnology for the metal oxide nanometer catalyst, a micro-arc oxidization method is mainly utilized for directly growing a metal oxide nanometer catalyst material on the surface of a metal substrate,and the metal oxide nanometer catalyst material is subjected to doping modification. The prepared metal oxide nanometer catalyst is good in crystallinity, large in active area, relative uniform in size, uniform in growth and distribution, and applicable to the fields of automobile tail gas treatment, denitration and desulfurization treatment, industrial waste gas treatment, CO catalytic oxidization and relevant environmental catalytic purification.