The invention relates to a solution for chemically plating nickel on the surface of a non-catalytic active material and a plating process for the solution, and belongs to the technical field of chemical nickel-plating. The solution comprises liquor A, liquor B, liquor C and/or liquor D, wherein the liquor A comprises a water-soluble nickel salt and a buffer agent; the liquor B comprises a reducing agent, a complexing agent, a buffer agent, a stabilizer and a surface wetting agent; the liquor C comprises the water-soluble nickel salt and the complexing agent; and the liquor D comprises the reducing agent and the stabilizer. The plating process for the solution comprises the following steps: preparing the liquor A, the liquor B and a diluent; uniformly mixing the liquor A, the liquor B and the diluent to obtain a mixture, regulating the pH value of the mixture to 7.0-8.0, heating the mixture to a temperature of 82-88 DEG C, and carrying out primary plating by using an iron material as an initiator; filtering plating liquor after carrying out primary plating; recycling filtrate for next-time plating, feeding plating liquor obtained by the next-time plating into the liquor C and the liquor D, and recycling the plating liquor. According to the solution and the plating process thereof, the combination and the process design are reasonable, generation and emission of waste liquor can be greatly reduced, and the utilization rate of the plating liquor can be increased.