The invention provides a method for preparing a ternary cathode material NCA of a lithium ion battery. The method comprises the following steps: (1) preparing an NCA precursor, namely preparing nickelsalt, cobalt salt and aluminum salt solutions, uniformly mixing the cobalt salt and aluminum salt solutions, adding a spherical template agent into the mixed solution, adding the nickel salt into themixed solution, adding a precipitator solution and the mixed solution in concurrent flow into a reactor so as to react and precipitate, fully reacting, standing, aging, washing the solids after agingtreatment, and performing vacuum drying so as to obtain the NCA precursor; (2) preparing an NCA material, namely fully mixing the NCA precursor of the ternary material and a lithium source, sintering, and crushing the sintered material, thereby obtaining the needed ternary cathode material NCA. Compared with the traditional process, the method disclosed by the invention has the advantages of being uniform in element distribution, short in process time, well controllable in process, simple in operation, environmental-friendly, low in equipment requirements, less in waste of raw materials, highin product quality and the like.