The invention provides a crosslinked polyethylene high-voltage cable partial discharge feature extraction method, and belongs to the technical field of high-voltage cables. The high-voltage cable partial discharge feature extraction method aims to solve the problem that partial discharge feature extraction is inaccurate in an existing high-voltage cable partial detection method. According to the method, firstly, metal sheath grounding current signals generated when crosslinked polyethylene high-voltage cable partial discharge happens is acquired through a high-frequency current mutual inductor; then, current signals are converted into digital signals; next, wavelet packet decomposition is conducted on the digital signals, modulus maxima extraction and singularity detection are sequentially conducted on decomposed wavelet packet node coefficients or reconstructed signals, and wavelet packet energy index entropy calculation is conducted; finally, a discharge feature curve is drawn according to the operation result, and crosslinked polyethylene high-voltage cable partial discharge feature extraction is achieved. By means of the crosslinked polyethylene high-voltage cable partial discharge feature extraction method, the cable partial discharge feature extraction accuracy can be improved, and technical support is provided for next high-voltage cable partial discharge.