The invention provides an identification technology of a novel circulating tumor cell (CTC). The identification technology is used for identifying the CTC. The method is characterized in that body fluid (such as peripheral blood) of a tumor patient is subjected to standard sampling, transportation and storage, sample pretreatment, CTC enrichment and separation on a microfiltration film, cell immobilization, cell silver staining and immunofluorescence in-situ detection, whether the cells are tumor cells or not is determined according to the karyoplasm proportion, the irregular nucleolus characteristics and the number, and finally the organ tissue source of CTC in blood is determined through fluorescence immunoassay of tissue and organ specific protein markers. According to the method, CTC is subjected to in-situ microscopic examination, tumor cells are detected, organ tissue sources of circulating tumor cells are determined, a long-term problem that CTC morphological identification lacks a believable method is solved, and establishment of a unified standard for CTC detection is facilitated. The method has advantages of being easy to operate, good in repeatability, high in stabilityand the like, and can be used for early screening of tumor high-risk groups, curative effect evaluation of cancer patients and recurrence monitoring.