The invention relates to a catalyst for diphenylguanidine (DPG) serving as an accelerating agent in an oxygen oxidation synthesis production process and a preparation method thereof. The catalyst is one or more of metal salts, such as copper acetate, copper sulfate, copper nitrate, cobalt acetate, cobalt sulfate, cobalt linoleate, cobalt nitrate, cerium acetate, cerium sulfate, cerium nitrate, manganese acetate, manganese sulfate, manganese nitrate and the like; and a carrier of the catalyst is one or more of active carbon, SiO2, Al2O3, TiO2, a mesoporous material molecular sieve, a micropore material molecular sieve and the like. The prepared catalyst is used in reaction of synthesizing the DPG by oxygen oxidation; and the reaction is used for reflecting the performance of the catalyst. The use amount of the catalyst is 0.02 to 0.1 percent of the weight of reactants. The catalyst provided by the invention has the advantages of rational formula, small use amount and good catalysis effect, and contains active ingredients and the carrier; furthermore, the dispersion area of the active ingredients is enlarged, so the contact area between the active ingredients and the reactants is enlarged and the reaction speed is increased; meanwhile, the use amount of the catalyst is reduced; and yield of CBS is up to over 97 percent under the optimized reaction conditions.