The invention provides a flexible base material and a preparation method thereof. Compared with the prior art that a sputtering(or chemical plating)/ electric plating method is utilized to prepare the adhesive-free flexible base material, the method utilizes a normal position chemical reduction/ electric plating method to prepare the flexible base material on an insulation base material containing a surface layer, and the surface layer contains nanometer particles with micropore structure. First, a middle layer is subjected to the normal position chemical reduction, partial metal particles are infiltrated into micro pores of the nanometer particles to enable physical anchoring fit to be formed between the middle layer and the insulation base material and improve peeling strength. Further, the peeling strength is not reduced after high temperature processing. Second, the particles are in nanometer grade, the insulation base material infiltrated in the middle layer is shallow, interface is smooth, etching performance is good, and manufacture of a fine line is facilitated. Finally, the normal position chemical reduction method can control thickness of the middle layer by adjusting density of oxygen liquid and reduction liquid and spraying time to further prepare the adhesive-free flexible base material with any thickness without special devices, and the preparation process is simple.