The invention relates to a preparation method of a high-specific-capacity lithium-rich anode material, belongs to the field of chemical power source material preparation and lithium ion battery anode materials. The preparation method comprises the following steps of dissolving manganese acetate, nickel acetate, cobaltous acetate and lithium acetate in a solvent, stirring the manganese acetate, the nickel acetate, the cobaltous acetate and the lithium acetate so as to obtain an acetate solution which is uniformly mixed, carrying out magnetic stirring and evaporating under heating of a water bath until a mixing liquid is thick colloid, and placing the mixing liquid in a drying box to dry so as to obtain precursor powder; warming the dried precursor powder to calcine twice, and reducing to room temperature by adopting a furnace cooling manner so as to obtain a multi-element lithium-rich material Li1.2Mn0.54Ni0.13 Co0.13O2. A material prepared by the preparation method provided by the invention is high in bulk phase crystallinity, the grain diameter of a material is small, the distribution is uniform, a transition metal element proportion approaches to a theoretical value, a synthesis step is simple, the material is easy for mass production, synthesizing nondeterminacy factors in a process are less, the characteristics give the high specific capacity and the cycling stability for the material, and an electrochemical property of the material is excellent.