The invention provides a high bearing capacity steel pipe tower joint and a manufacturing method. The high bearing capacity steel pipe joint is used for connecting a main pipe and a plurality of branch pipes of a steel pipe tower. A joint plate serving as a component of force transmission and preventing instability out of a ring plate face is welded to the plane formed by the branch pipes and the main pipe in the generatrix direction of the main pipe, a plurality of bearing round ring plates serving as main bearing components are arranged in a joint plate area, and each round ring plate is perpendicular to and welded to the main pipe and the joint plate. The manufacturing method includes the steps that when manufacturing a joint used for connecting a plurality of steel pipes, firstly a main bearing component with the relative long pipe diameter needs to be determined as a main pipe, and other to-be-connected steel pipes serve as branch pipes; a plane formed by the main pipe and the multiple branch pipes is considered, in the plane, the joint plate is welded in the generatrix direction of the outer wall of the main pipe, the size of the joint plate need to be large enough to contain each branch pipe which needs to be connected, and the branch pipes are not overlapped mutually; the meeting point of the axle of the branch pipes and the main pipe needs to be in the range of the joint plate; and by adopting the manufacturing method, the bearing capacity of the steel pipe tower joint is improved greatly.