The invention discloses a manufacturing technology for far-infrared polyester short fibers, which takes recycled PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) as a raw material, and the recycled PET is processed sequentially through pretreatment, rotating drum drying, melt spinning, cooling formation, winding, drawing, curling, oil application, cutting and heat setting, so as to obtain finished products, wherein in the rotating drum drying step, the recycled PET is dried for 5.5 to 6.5 hours firstly, then far-infrared master batches are added, the final mass fraction of the far-infrared master batches ranges from 5 to 7 percent, the total drying time ranges from 9.5 to 10.5 hours, and far-infrared ceramic powders account for 19 to 21 percent in the far-infrared master batches; in the melt spinning step, the temperatures of a screw bolt and a spinning box body of a screw bolt extruder range from 268 to 278 DEG C, and cooling formation is carried out through circular air blow; in addition, the total drawing ratio is 3.0 to 3.5, the heat setting temperature ranges from 162 to 168 DEG C, and the heat setting time ranges from 8 to 12 minutes. The manufacturing technology can save cost and is beneficial to environmental protection, and the prepared finished products achieve good warmth retention and health protection properties.