The invention provides a preparation method of N, N-dimethyl-1, 3-propane diamine, which comprises the following steps: mixing acrylonitrile and a dimethylamine solution, injecting the mixture into a micro-channel reaction device for addition reaction, mixing the reaction liquid with hydrogen, preheating the mixture, feeding the preheated mixture into a continuous hydrogenation reactor filled with a Ni-based alloy hydrogenation catalyst, carrying out hydrogenation reaction and carrying out vacuum rectification separating to obtain the required product. According to the preparation method disclosed by the invention, the microchannel reactor has the advantages of continuity, high mass and heat transfer efficiency, narrow residence time distribution, no amplification effect and the like, so that the addition reaction of acrylonitrile and dimethylamine has the characteristics of high efficiency, high conversion rate and few byproducts; and the hydrogenation reaction is carried out under extremely mild reaction conditions by using the novel Ni-based alloy catalyst, and meanwhile, very high conversion rate and product selectivity are obtained, so that the whole reaction system has the advantages of continuous production, convenience in operation, high resource utilization rate and the like.