The invention aims to prepare an aluminum nitride ceramic material with high strength and high thermal conductivity, and belongs to the technical field of ceramic material preparation. In order to obtain the aluminum nitride ceramic with low oxygen content and fine grain structure, a novel method of pre-sintering, hot pressed sintering and high-temperature annealing is designed, wherein the pre-sintering temperature is 1400-1600 DEG C, the sintering time is 2-5 hours, the hot pressing sintering temperature is 1650-1800 DEG C, the sintering time is 0.5-3 hours, the sintering pressure is 15-45 MPa, the annealing temperature is 1750-1800 DEG C, and the annealing time is 3-8 hours. According to the method, presintering oxygen reduction and annealing deoxidation are utilized, so that the impurity oxygen content, especially the lattice oxygen content, of the aluminum nitride ceramic is effectively reduced. Therefore, under the condition of ensuring the strength, the heat conductivity of the aluminum nitride ceramic is remarkably improved, and the aluminum nitride ceramic has high practical value. The ceramic prepared by the method has the advantages of fine grains and low impurity oxygen content, the average grain size is less than 3 microns, the thermal conductivity is higher than 200W/m.k, the total oxygen content is lower than 1%, and the bending strength is higher than 350MPa.