The invention discloses a dehydrogenation catalyst reduction method. Dehydrogenation catalyst is platinum family loading catalyst and is in programmed temperature rising reduction before being used, the programmed temperature rising reduction is performed within a temperature range between 350 DEG C and 600 DEG C, and temperature rising speed ranges from 0.5 DEG C / min to 10 DEG C / min. In an activating process of the dehydrogenation catalyst, after platinum-base catalyst is prepared by a conventional method, conventional constant-temperature reduction operation is omitted, a programmed temperature-rising reduction method is utilized to realizing activation reduction for the catalyst, so that metal particles of the catalyst after being in reduction are dispersed more uniformly, sizes of theparticles are proper, and surface area of exposed elementary substance Pt is enlarged. Accumulation of activated metal of the catalyst due to deep reduction of dehydrogenation activated metal is avoided, deep reduction of addition agent components which do not need reduction can also be avoided, accordingly, service performances of the catalyst are improved, and particularly, selectivity of objective products and stability of long-term reaction are improved.