The invention discloses an environment-friendly high-brightness medium-phosphorus chemical nickel-plating additive which is composed of components A and B, wherein the component A comprises the following raw materials: a 2-5mg / L mixture of nano copper and a soluble copper salt, 2-4mg / L rhenium sulfate, 1-4mg / L sodium allysulfonate (ALS), a complexing agent, a stabilizer, and 20-40g / L NaOH; the component B comprises the following raw materials: 1-4mg / L 1,4-bis(2-hydroxyethoxy)-2-butyne (BEO), 1-3mg / L N,N-diethylaminopropyne (DEP), 1-4mg / L dibenzenesulfonimide (BBI), and 2-4mg / L sodium hydroxymethanesulphonate (PN). The formula of the environment-friendly high-brightness medium-phosphorus chemical nickel-plating additive provided by the invention contains no heavy metal ions such as cadmium and lead, and is harmless to the environment; if applied to a chemical nickel-plating solution, the additive is capable of keeping the plating solution stable so that the obtained coating is even and compact, low in porosity, high in brightness and good in nitric acid resistance; more specifically, even though the nickel coating is soaked in concentrated nitric acid for 300 seconds, the nickel coating does not change color.