The invention discloses a heavy metal wastewater treatment process. The heavy metal wastewater treatment process comprises steps as follows: S1, wastewater is pumped into a pH regulating tank; S2, cation exchange resin is added, and cations are adsorbed; S3, the wastewater is pumped into a middle water tank, anion exchange resin is added, anions are adsorbed, and a supernatant liquid is drained upto standard or recycled; S4, wastewater at the bottom of the middle water tank is conveyed to a coagulating sedimentation reactor, the supernatant liquid is subjected to reduced pressure distillationtreatment at the low temperature, produced condensate is drained up to standard or recycled, and sludge at the bottom is discharged into a sludge tank; S5, a concentrated distillation liquid and thesludge are mixed and dewatered by a plate-and-frame filter press, and a sludge cake is outsourced and treated; S6, resin in S2 is reused, and metal copper or nickel is removed through an electrolyticreaction; S7, filter pressed effluent and electrolytic residual fluids are mixed and conveyed to the coagulating sedimentation reactor. By means of the scheme, heavy metal copper/nickel can be directly recovered, energy consumption is low, resin is easy to regenerate, and the effluent has good quality.