The invention discloses a method for preparing a special fracturing propping agent for shale gas by utilizing low-carbon coal gangue. The method comprises the following steps of: ball milling the low-carbon coal gangue, sieving, taking the sieved coal gangue, placing the sieved coal gangue, coke, silicon micropowder and manganese slags in ball mill, wet grinding, and thus forming a mixed slurry, drying the mixed slurry by adopting a spray drying tower, scattering, taking coal gangue master batches as seeds, pelleting in a sugarcoating machine to form dense balls, forming by coating coke dust, placing the formed particles in a crucible, placing in an electric furnace, sintering at ultralow temperature by adopting a self-spreading manner, naturally cooling, and taking out, thus obtaining the special fracturing propping agent for the shale gas. The method provided by the invention has the advantages of being beneficial for saving high-quantity natural mineral resources, reducing firing temperature, shortening burning period, saving energy sources, and improving the combination property of a product; a secondary balling process is adopted for molding, the self spreading sintering advantage is displayed, the energy consumption is greatly reduced, the operation is convenient and easy to control, and the method is beneficial for industrialized large-scale production; the prepared propping agent has the good characteristics of low density, high intensity, high temperature resistance, high corrosion resistance and the like.