The invention relates to the technical field of wetland plant building, and discloses a building method of an aquatic-terrestrial wetland emergent plant community. The method comprises the following steps that firstly, an aquatic-terrestrial shallow water area with the depth lower than 0.5 meter is selected to serve as an emergent plant growing region; secondly, the emergent plant community is built in the selected growing region, wherein the emergent plant comprises cyperus papyrus, acorus calamus, India canna and pontederia cordata, and according to spatial arrangement, cyperus papyrus, acorus calamus, India canna and pontederia cordata are planted from the shallow water area to a side respectively; thirdly, after planting is completed, pest and disease control is conducted in time, and weeds and duckweed noxious plants are cleared away in time. The community composed of the four species of emergent plants including cyperus papyrus, acorus calamus, India canna and pontederia cordata has a high purification effect on eutrophic waters, is capable of keeping the stability of the wetland aquatic plant community, and has an important significance on ecological remediation of the eutrophic waters; the four species of emergent plants are matched reasonably to form the emergent plant community adapting to local natural environmental conditions, and the wetland landscape effect is enhanced.