The invention discloses a preparation method of a nitrogen-doped porous-structure carbon material and belongs to the technical field of inorganic material preparation. The preparation method utilizes a micromolecular carbon-containing compound as a raw material and comprises the following steps of based on the weight of the raw material, adding 0-400wt% of an inorganic base, 0-400wt% of an organic nitrogen-containing compound and 0-50wt% of a metal or metal oxide or inorganic metal salt into the raw material, carrying out uniform dispersion, and carrying out a reaction process in an inert gas protective atmosphere at a temperature of 400-900 DEG C for 0.5-12h so that the nitrogen-doped porous-structure carbon material having micropores, mesopores and macropores is obtained. The preparation method has simple processes, can be controlled easily, and realizes one-step combination of porous structure, functionalization nitrogen doping and metal particle modification. The nitrogen-doped porous-structure carbon material having high nitrogen content has a large capacitance value and good cycle performances, can be used as an oxygen reduction reaction catalyst having high activity, high selectivity and high stability and has a very large application prospect.