The invention relates to a method for preparing a phosphate series lithium ion battery anode material, comprising the following steps: preparing one or more of divalent manganese source compound, ferrum source compound, nickel source compound or cobalt source compound into a mixed solution; adding oxalic acid or oxalate, acid and urea, and slowly hydrolyzing the urea by controlling the reaction temperature and time; causing the pH value of the system to rise to reach the condition of homogeneous precipitation; after the reaction, filtering, washing and drying to obtain a precursor; evenly mixing and carrying out ball milling on the precursor, a lithium source and a phosphorous source; and calcining the mixture under the non-oxidability atmosphere to prepare the unitary or multielement phosphate series lithium ion battery anode material. The precursor prepared with the method has the advantages of stable ingredient proportion, even granularity distribution, good consistency and simple synthetic technology, does not need to consider the influence of flow rate and agitation and is suitable for industrial production. The synthesized battery anode material is the phosphate compound with an olivine structure, the average grain size of the primary particle is 100-500nm, and the battery anode material has good electrochemistry property.