The invention relates to a preparing method for a nickel tin-carbon-silicon electrode material. According to the material, silicon oxide with the high specific surface area is used as a raw material, mechanically mixed with magnesium, reduced in a high temperature thermal mode, treated in an acid mode, and coated with a conducting polymer, nickel oxide and tin oxide are deposited, and tabletting and high-temperature thermal reducing are carried out, so that the nickel tin-carbon-silicon electrode material is obtained; the specific surface area of silicon oxide is larger than 700 m<2>/g, and silicon oxide is one of silicon oxide nanometer powder, silicon oxide nanospheres, silicon oxide SBA-15, silicon oxide MCM-41 and silicon oxide KIT-6; the conducting polymer is one of polyaniline, polypyrrole, polythiophene and polyacetylene; the molar ratio of silicon oxide to magnesium is 1:(2-4), the molar ratio of silicon oxide to the conducting polymer precursor is 1:(1-5), the molar ratio of nickel oxide to the conducting polymer precursor is 1:(1-20), and the molar ratio of nickel oxide to tin oxide is 3:(1-8). The composite material has the advantages of being stable in structure and good in conductivity, having high specific capacity and excellent cycle performance when being used in a negative pole of a lithium battery, and having a good application prospect in the field of the batteries.