The invention relates to a novel foldable lifting basket applied to high-rise building escape. Multiple people can simultaneously escape, and high-rise building escape efficiency and safety are improved. The foldable lifting basket comprises a bottom plate, an aluminum alloy plate, a front-side steel wire rope, bottom plate hinge pins, a left lower side plate, a lifting ring, a left upper side plate, a buckle, a bolt, a front-side cross beam, a rear-side cross beam, a right upper side plate, a rear-side steel wire rope, side plate hinge pins and a right lower side plate. The novel foldable lifting basket has the advantages that the novel foldable lifting basket is skillful in structure and light in weight; the basket body can be flexibly unfolded and folded, so that the foldability of the lifting basket is realized, and space occupation is reduced; and the novel foldable lifting basket has the characteristics of convenient transportation, flexible operation, high reliability and the like.