The invention discloses a positive pole material of a lithium ion battery with a nanometer structure and a preparation method thereof. The positive pole material is in a particle type core-shell structure, a core material consists of nanometer lithium iron phosphate, lithium vanadium phosphate or cobalt lithium oxide and graphene, and a shell material is porous carbon. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: taking lithium acetate, lithium oxalate, ammonium dihydrogen phosphate, ammonia metavanadate, phosphoric acid, lithium nitrate, cobalt nitrate and graphite oxide as raw materials, adopting a sol-gel method or a ball milling method to prepare a mixture, presintering the mixture in vacuum to obtain the core material, and mixing, grinding and calcining the core material with an organic carbon source to obtain the positive pole material with the particle type core-shell structure. The positive pole material has the advantages of good conductivity, good circulating performance, high capacity, small and uniform particle size, and simple preparation process and is easy for industrialized production.