The invention belongs to the technical field of degrading organic pollutants in wastewater by multiphase photocatalytic oxidation technology, and particularly relates to a nano titanium dioxide photocatalyst capable of degrading phenolic pollutants in the wastewater, and a preparation method of the nano titanium dioxide photocatalyst comprises preparation of a composite material containing graphite oxide powder, processing of nano titanium dioxide particles and synthesis of the nano titanium dioxide photocatalyst. Compared with the prior art, the nano titanium dioxide photocatalyst has the following advantages: doping levels can be formed by effective compounding, effective charge separation is increased, the energy band width of the titanium dioxide is reduced, light transmittance is increased, light utilization rate of the catalyst is increased, photo-corrosion phenomenons can be avoided, the pollutants can be quickly adsorbed, due to a larger specific surface area and a high-void structure of the nano titanium dioxide photocatalyst, more pollutant molecules can be adsorbed, and degradation effect of the phenolic pollutants in the wastewater can be improved.