The invention discloses a ring winding magnetic field modulation linear motor, which belongs to the field of motors and solves the problems of material waste, complicated insulation process between windings, large motor thrust fluctuation and low frequency caused by the long end part of the traditional linear permanent magnet motor winding and the winding mode of the winding. The ring winding magnetic field modulation linear motor comprises a primary winding and a secondary winding, a gap exists between the primary winding and the secondary winding, by adopting pole-slot match between the primary winding and the secondary winding and the ring winding, non-uniform air gap permeance plays a role of pole changing, the magnetic motive force of the primary winding and the air gap permeance interact mutually, a magnetic field with the same pole number as secondary permanent magnets is generated, the two magnetic fields interact mutually to generate a constant thrust, and thus, the limitation that the pole number of the primary winding and the pole number of the secondary winding of the traditional linear permanent magnet synchronous motor need to be the same is further broken. The pole-pairs number P of the secondary permanent magnets, the slot number Q per side of the primary winding and the pole-pairs number S of the primary winding fundamental magnetic motive force meet the following relationship: P=Q+/-S. The ring winding magnetic field modulation linear motor can be applied to low speed, great acceleration, high output thrust and other situations.