The invention discloses a method for recovering silver ions from a tantalum electrolytic capacitor by using novel chelate resin. A preparation method for the chelate resin comprises the following steps: (1) soaking chlorine spheres in N,N-dimethylformamide, which serves as a reaction solvent, until the chlorine spheres are thoroughly swollen; (2) adding 2-amino-4-methylpyridine, which serves as a ligand, and sodium, which serves as a catalyst, into a product of the step (1), and carrying out stirred reaction for 10 hours at the temperature of 80 DEG C under nitrogen protection, wherein the mass ratio of 2-amino-4-methylpyridine to -CH2Cl in the chlorine spheres is 4: 1; and (3) filtering a product of the step (2) so as to obtain a filter cake, firstly, washing the filter cake with the reaction solvent by soaking until a washing solution is colorless, then, washing the filter cake with distilled water, then, repeatedly washing the filter cake with anhydrous ethanol, acetone, diethyl ether and distilled water sequentially, and carrying out vacuum drying on the filter cake at the temperature of 50 DEG C, thereby obtaining the novel chelate resin. The method has the characteristics that the novel chelate resin selectively adsorbs the silver ions in the tantalum electrolytic capacitor, is good in adsorption performance, can be reused and the like.