The invention discloses a novel energy-saving process for extracting and purifying panax notoginseng saponins, comprising: crushing raw materials, extracting solvent, cooling and clarifying extraction liquid, concentrating, chromatographically separating and purifying, decoloring, concentrating, evaporating, etc.; the steps are specifically as follows: pre-processing the pseudo-ginseng raw materials and then feeding into an extracting tank, adding 5-10 times of about 70% of ethanol solution, heating to 75 DEG. C, refluxing and extracting for about 3h; collecting the extraction liquid, cooling and clarifying, performing film concentration and recovering ethanol, stopping concentrating till amount of the permeated ethanol solution is 90% of that of the extraction liquid, evaporating the concentrated solution till to ethanol-free, transferring into a chromatographic column, absorbing the solution by the column, separating and purifying, eluting with 70% of ethanol solution, decoloring the eluent and then leading the eluent into a film concentrator to concentrate, directly feeding the concentrated solution into an evaporator to evaporate and recover the residual ethanol, finally preparing fine extract of the panax notoginseng saponins; through the film concentration process, concentration quantity of thermal evaporation is effectively reduced by 90%, comprehensive energy-saving rate reaches above 80%, absolute recovery rate of the solvent reaches above 90%, and solvent consumption is effectively reduced; thus, the process is evident in energy saving and consumption reducing.