The invention relates to a development method of a flexible pressure-sensitive element based on a carbon nano-tube filled high polymer composite material, which belongs to the technical field of sensors. The method comprises the following steps of: 1. pressure-sensitive material preparation: dispersing carbon nano-tubes into polydimethylsiloxane by utilizing ultrasonic vibration and mechanical stirring methods, and preparing a thin and flexible pressure-sensitive material by using tetraethoxysilane as a crosslinking agent and dibutyltin dilaurate as a catalyst with a spin coating method; 2. pressure-sensitive element packaging, wherein a two-stage sandwich structure is adopted, the first-stage sandwich structure comprises two layers of packaging films and the pressure-sensitive material positioned in the middle; and in the second-stage sandwich structure, each layer of packaging film comprises two layers of polyimide films as well as a copper foil electrode and a lead which are embedded in the two layers of polyimide films. The pressure-sensitive element developed by the invention has good flexibility, high precision, thin thickness, simple process and low cost and is applicable to the fields of pressure monitoring of structures between narrow curved surface layers in the fields of military industry and civil use and artificial electronic skin development and the like.