The invention discloses a quantum dot spectral imaging system which comprises a front telescope, a quantum dot array plate, and an image detector arranged in order. The image detector is at the back focal plane of the front telescope. According to the quantum dot array plate, quantum dot materials with different spectral transmission rate characteristics are parallelly made on a substrate along a spectral dimension direction, each quantum dot material covers one or more rows of detection pixels in the spectral dimension direction, and a quantum dot strip is formed. The scheme is based on the quantum dot spectral imaging system, compared with a traditional spectral imager, the system has the advantages of stable performance, a high energy utilization rate, a simple structure, a small volume, a light weight and low cost, the complexity and development cost of the system are effectively reduced, the system is suitable for airborne or spaceborne equipment, and especially the application requirement of load miniaturization is satisfied. In addition, an incident spectrum can be restored well by using a spectral reconstruction algorithm.