Aiming at the problem of insufficient representation ability of features extracted by the existing vehicle re-identification methods based on convolution Neural Network （CNN）， a vehicle re-identification method based on the combination of wavelet features and attention mechanism was proposed. Firstly， the single-layer wavelet module was embedded in the convolution module to replace the pooling layer for subsampling， thereby reducing the loss of fine-grained features. Secondly， a new local attention module named Feature Extraction Module （FEM） was put forward by combining Channel Attention （CA） mechanism and Pixel Attention （PA） mechanism， which was embedded into CNN to weight and strengthen the key information. Comparison experiments with the benchmark residual convolutional network ResNet-50 and ResNet-101 were conducted on VeRi dataset. Experimental results show that increasing the number of wavelet decomposition layers in ResNet-50 can improve mean Average Precision （mAP）. In the ablation experiment， although ResNet-50+Discrete Wavelet Transform （DWT） has the mAP reduced by 0.25 percentage points compared with ResNet-101， it has the number of parameters and computational complexity lower than those of ResNet-101， and has the mAP， Rank-1 and Rank-5 higher than those of ResNet-50 without DWT， verifying that the proposed model can effectively improve the accuracy of vehicle retrieval in vehicle re-identification.