Disclosed is a composite positive electrode material for lithium ion batteries, which especially enables to achieve excellent high-rate discharge characteristics in a battery. Also disclosed are a slurry, positive electrode and battery using such a composite positive electrode material. Specifically disclosed is a composite positive electrode material for lithium ion batteries, which contains a positive electrode active material (a), a conductive substance (b) having a primary particle diameter of 10-100 nm and/or a fibrous conductive substance (c) having a fiber diameter of from 1 nm to 1 μm, and a conductive substance (d) having an aspect ratio of 2-50. This composite positive electrode material for lithium ion batteries is obtained by mixing the conductive substance (d) with a composition containing the positive electrode active material (a), the conductive substance (b) and/or the conductive substance (c), which composition is obtained by dispersing the positive electrode active material (a), the conductive substance (b) and/or the conductive substance (c) in a solvent to a state where they are forcibly dispersed, and then agglutinating them.