The invention provides a water-based inorganic zinc shop primer, which comprises a base-material and a curing agent, wherein the base-material comprises zinc, a filling material, pigment, rare earth oxide, a heterocyclic organic compound, a surfactant, water, an anti-settling agent and an antifoaming agent; the curing agent comprises an inorganic high-molecular film forming substrate, anacrylic acid monomer, styrene, methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, a dispersant, water, an antifoaming agent and a surfactant. The shop primer is used for ship or large-scale steel structure construction, has excellent anticorrosion performance, and is suitable for high pressure airless spraying to satisfy the production requirements of shop primer streamline, and satisfy the requirements of welding, cutting and the like. and can be used as a priming paint for temporary protection in the process for constructing large-scale heavy steel structures in ship construction factory or large-scale steel structure factory, the protection duration is 3-12 months.