The invention relates to a permanent magnet drive motor for a solar tracking system, which comprises an enclosure, a stator and a rotor which are arranged in the enclosure, wherein, the stator comprises a stator core and a stator winding which are fixed on an inner wall of the enclosure, and the stator core comprises a stator magnetic yoke, a stator slot and stator teeth; the rotor comprises a rotating shaft and a rotor core, and a permanent magnet slot is uniformly arranged along the periphery of the rotor core; the permanent magnet slot is internally inlaid with radial magnetized rectangular strip magnetic steel, the radial magnetized rectangular strip magnetic steel and a pole piece form a permanent magnet pole, and an excircle of a rotor pole piece is in a concentric or excentric arc curved surface shape to form uniformly or non-uniformly symmetrical air gap; semi-circle grooves are arranged on two ends of the permanent magnet slot in which one of two pieces of adjacent radial magnetized rectangular strip magnetic steel is arranged; and rectangular supporting bars are radially inserted in the permanent magnet slot in which the V-shaped radial magnetized rectangular strip magnetic steel is arranged. The permanent magnet drive motor has the characteristics of high efficiency, high output power, high reliability, low moment fluctuation and the like.