The present invention discloses a method for treating zinc hydrometallurgy waste residue by using an alkali ammonium sulfur coupling method, relates to a method for comprehensive utilization of lead silver residue and iron alum residue in zinc hydrometallurgy waste residue by using a alkali ammonium sulfur coupling clean metallurgical method, and belongs to the field of metallurgical hazardous solid reside treatment, wherein the method can further be used to treat other complex waste containing lead and zinc. According to the method, a medium temperature calcination method is performed on zinc hydrometallurgy residue; then an alkali leaching treatment is performed; then the leached alkali residue is leached with ammonium chloride; the resulting alkali leaching liquid is replaced by zinc powder to obtain residues containing zinc, copper, lead, silver and cadmium, and a solution; the solution is subjected to precipitation by using a sulfide to obtain a zinc sulfide product and an ammonium chloride solution; or after the ammonium chloride is leached, the resulting leaching liquid is directly treated by using a precipitating agent, and then is filtered to obtain a lead-zinc sulfide concentrate containing copper and silver and an ammonium chloride solution. With the method of the present invention, valuable metal resources in zinc hydrometallurgy residue can be subjected to effective comprehensive recovery, harmlessness and resource of the final residue are achieved, and good environmental benefits and economic benefits can be achieved.