The invention provides a gate rapid transit control method based on a mobile terminal. The method comprises the steps that a cloud server judges whether a user carrying the terminal reaches a gate entrance, an account preset inside the terminal and related to identity information is inquired, and it is determined that the status of the account is normal; if the status of the account is normal, a camera arranged at the gate entrance photographs an image of the user and sends the image to a local server so as to perform identity verification; according to the recognition result of the local server, a gate stop level is started or closed, and the user enters the station from the gate entrance. Due to face recognition, physical characteristic recognition and limb shape recognition, the database query range is decreased, whether the current user is a real user of the terminal or not can be rapidly judged, the query efficiency is improved, the phenomenon that a jammed queue is caused by slowidentity recognition is avoided, and identity recognition and accurate positioning can be achieved without any special movement of the user.