The invention belongs to the technical field of nickel ore pretreatment, and particularly relates to a clean nickel ore pretreatment process. Aiming at the problems of long treatment period, low nickel leaching rate, low yield, serious environmental pollution and obvious passivation of the later nickel leaching rate from fast to slow in the existing process, the invention provides the following scheme: (1) ore dressing: removing large bedrock with a weak weathering degree and low nickel content in nickel ore in advance by adopting the procedures of crushing, screening and the like; and (2) microwave sintering and pressure leaching: carrying out microwave sintering on the nickel ore treated in the step (1) to destroy mineral lattices, then carrying out pressure leaching in a low-temperatureenvironment, separating out iron ions, precipitating to obtain hematite, and filtering out the hematite. According to the method, the characteristics of the nickel ore can be well adapted, the ore leaching performance is excellent, the biological column leaching effect is excellent, and the biological leaching period is short; the metal yield is high; no pollution is caused to the environment; and the passivation problem that the nickel leaching rate obviously changes from high to low in the later leaching period can be solved, and the nickel leaching rate is high.