The invention discloses a construction method of a subbase layer of a highway pavement, and particularly relates to the technical field of building construction, and the construction method comprises the following steps: step 1, cleaning and trimming the surface of the subbase layer, step 2, recovering a center line, step 3, paving cobblestones and reinforced concrete on the surface of the subbase layer, step 4, adding a thermal insulation layer and an anti-crack layer, and step 5, stacking a conventional mixture. According to the construction method, on the basis of original conventional mixture laying construction, the cobblestones and the reinforced concrete are fully mixed and coagulated by laying the cobblestones and the reinforced concrete, so that a powerful supporting surface is formed on the surface of the bottom of the subbase layer, and the overall pressure resistance of a highway pavement is improved; meanwhile, the thermal insulation mixture and the anti-cracking mixture are additionally arranged on the basis of the subbase layer, so that the influence on the highway pavement caused by frost cracking of the bottom of the subbase layer due to cold weather is avoided, and the high strength, the high thermal insulation property and the high anti-cracking property of the highway pavement are improved on the basis of not influencing conventional construction.