The invention provides a method for treating refractory wastewater by virtue of a supercritical water oxidation technology. The method comprises the following steps of: feeding the preheated wastewater into a salt separator for supercritical desalination, heating an oxidant which is preheated previously through a heat exchanger to a desired temperature, feeding the heated oxidant and the desalinated wastewater into a supercritical water oxidation reactor from the two ends of the reactor, respectively, controlling the system pressure by a back pressure valve, and carrying out a supercritical water oxidation reaction to degrade pollutants in the wastewater into non-toxic matters such as CO2, N2 and H2O; feeding the clean high-temperature and high-pressure fluid obtained after the reaction into the heat exchanger to exchange heat with the wastewater and the oxidant, respectively, and then cooling and separating, returning the excessive oxidant to the supercritical water oxidation reactor and causing the liquid into a normal-pressure gas-liquid separator, discharging the gases such as CO2 and N2 through the top of the normal-pressure gas-liquid separator, and discharging the treated clean water from the bottom of the normal-pressure gas-liquid separator. The method for treating the refractory wastewater by virtue of the supercritical water oxidation technology has the advantages of being high in wastewater treatment efficiency without secondary pollution, and suitable for treating the refractory wastewater different in concentration.