The invention relates to the technical field of sodium sulfide preparation, and discloses a method for preparing sodium sulfide by smelting reduction of industrial sodium sulfate. The method comprisesthe following steps: (1) mixing industrial sodium sulfate with a reducing agent, and carrying out ball milling to obtain a mixture with the fineness of less than or equal to 200 meshes, (2) adding the mixture obtained in the step (1) into a medium-frequency induction converting furnace, heating to a molten state, blowing mixed gas for converting reduction, reducing molten sodium sulfate into molten sodium sulfide, and pouring the molten sodium sulfide out of the medium-frequency induction converting furnace, and (3) pouring and molding the molten sodium sulfide poured out in the step (2), wherein in the step (1), the mass ratio of the industrial sodium sulfate to the reducing agent is 1: 0.4-1. According to the method, industrial sodium sulfate is used as a raw material, a reducing agentis added, the industrial sodium sulfate is molten and reduced into sodium sulfide through a full-fire method, the method is simple, environmentally friendly and small in equipment corrosion, and the prepared sodium sulfide is high in purity and content up to 90 wt% or above.