The invention provides a polypropylene foamed bead. The foamed bead is prepared by foaming a base resin high-melt-strength polypropylene with a foaming agent, wherein the high-melt-strength polypropylene has the following characteristics: the melt index MFR is 0.2-10 g/10 minutes, the molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn is 6-20, the content of substances with the molecular weight of greater than 5 million is greater than or equal to 0.8 wt%, the M[z+1]/Mn is greater than or equal to 70, and the ethylene content is 0.1-20 wt%. The high-melt-strength polypropylene with wide molecular weight distribution is utilized as the raw material to implement stabilization of the polypropylene raw material, so that the foaming window is effectively enlarged, the technique is easy to adjust, and the cost is low; the method can be used for preparing the polypropylene foamed bead with the density of 0.02-0.3 g/cm<3>, which has the advantages of uniform pore diameter, compact pores, uniform pore size distribution and close-pore structure; and the polypropylene foamed bead can be widely used in the fields of thermal insulation tableware, automobile interior ornaments, architectural moldboards, camping supplies, decorating material interlayers, product damping packages and the like.