The invention discloses a method for manufacturing a steel strip for a central cooling tube and a method for winding the cooling tube, wherein the method for manufacturing a steel strip for a central cooling tube comprises steps of first annealing, twice cold drawing, second annealing, acid washing, third annealing, twice cold rolling, third annealing and twice cold rolling again. The method for winding the cooling tube comprises the steps of the installation and the correction of a strip guiding wheel, the installation and the correction of a winding tooling, the installation and the correction of a tooling for measuring the external diameter of the cooling tube, the installation and the correction of a synchronous back twisting device, pitch correction, winding and cleaning. The rectangular steel strip manufactured in the invention has fine conformity, and the central cooling tube manufactured by winding the rectangular steel strip has perfect appearance; the surface of the central cooling tube has no lateral reverse curve, and the external diameter and the pitch of the central cooling tube are uniform to fulfill various kinds of tolerance requirements in practical use; the central cooling tube has great continuous winding length, has a wide range of application in the manufacture of a fusion reactor superconductor in the future, and already has practical application especially in the R&D (Research & Development) and preproduction phases of the superconductor in ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) which is the cooperation of 7 parties at present.