The invention discloses a preparation method of a lithium ion battery positive electrode material NCM811, which comprises the following steps: adding a metal nickel salt, a cobalt salt and a manganesesalt into deionized water according to a molar ratio of n(Ni):n(Co):n(Mn)=0.8:0.1:0.1, carrying out ultrasonic treatment, adding an ammonia water solution, adjusting the pH value, carrying out a heating reaction, and conducting filtering and drying to obtain a precursor; adding the precursor and a lithium source into a mortar, conducting grinding, putting the ground material into a tubular furnace, emptying air with nitrogen, introducing oxygen, conducting heating to a certain temperature, conducting cooling, conducting grinding with a mortar, conducting sieving with a 200-mesh sieve, addingthe sieved material into deionized water, adding sodium tartrate and alpha-cyclodextrin, conducting ultrasonic dissolving, transferring the dissolved material into a high-pressure reaction kettle, conducting reacting at a certain temperature, conducting filtering, putting filter residues into a tubular furnace, introducing oxygen, and conducing calcining and cooling to obtain the positive electrode material NCM811. The lithium ion battery positive electrode material NCM811 prepared by the invention has relatively high cyclic discharge capacity, and the performance structure is relatively stable and is not easy to attenuate in a cyclic use process.