The invention discloses an energy-saving type quick start method for a supercritical unit or an ultra-supercritical unit. According to the method, steam from another resource is used for heating supplied water so that a boiler can be indirectly heated, and the thermal stress of a heated surface is reduced when the boiler is started so that the heating rate of the boiler can be improved; meanwhile, the heated high-temperature supplied water is converted into steam-liquid two-phase flow through throttling and pressure reduction, the flowing scouring action of the steam-liquid two-phase flow is far superior to the effect of thermal-state washing, and in other words, the boiler can complete thermal-state washing under the non-ignition condition, and can preheat the whole heated surface before ignition till certain pressure is reached. After ignition of the boiler, due to the fact that enthalpy of subcooling on an inlet of a water wall is eliminated, the problem of water power can be readily solved and the input speed of fuel can be increased. Meanwhile, by adjusting the open degree of a turbine bypass valve, the flow, the temperature rising speed and the pressure rising speed of main stream and reheat steam are controlled, and the temperature rising speed of the heated surface of the boiler is increased; when the temperature of the main steam and the temperature of the reheat steam are larger than the temperature of a turbine heating valve, valve heating is started, and a main machine can early satisfy the impulse starting condition.