The invention provides a method for doping rare earth lanthanum in nano molybdenum powder, and belongs to the field of rare earth materials. The method includes the following steps that (1) ammonium paramolybdate, rare earth lanthanum nitrate and complexing agent citric acid are doped in a solution mode, the pH value of the solution is adjusted through HNO3 and NH3 water to be 1-3, complexing is performed on citrate ions, molybdate ions and rare earth ions to obtain a stable compound, water bath is performed on the solution at the temperature of 70-90 DEG C to obtain transparent faint yellow sol, and the transparent faint yellow sol is dried at the temperature of 100-120 DEG C to obtain xerogel; (2) the xerogel is sintered for 6 hours at the temperature of 560 DEG C, then in a four-tube sintering reduction furnace, two-step reduction is performed with hydrogen as a reducing agent to obtain doped MoO3 powder and doped Mo powder respectively, the reduction temperatures of the two-step reduction are 540 DEG C and 980 DEG C respectively, the doped nano rare earth molybdenum powder which is round and normal in particle and even in distribution is prepared, the size of doping phase is below 100nm, and the size of doped molybdenum powder particles is 300-500nm. According to the method, the nano molybdenum powder doped with the earth lanthanum evenly is prepared, and meanwhile chemical reaction sediments in the liquid-liquid doping process are eliminated.