According to an eleventh aspect, a system scheduling apparatus is provided, including: a determining module, configured to determine time information, where the time information is used to indicate a time at which user equipment sends uplink information; a first sending module, configured to send DCI or a system message to the user equipment; and a second sending module, configured to send downlink data to the user equipment, where the DCI or the system message carries the time information, and the uplink information is used to indicate whether the user equipment receives the downlink data correctly; and the time information specifically includes an interval from a preset time point to the time at which the uplink information is sent; or the DCI further carries scheduling information, excluding the time information, of the user equipment and scheduling information of another user equipment, the user equipment and the another user equipment form a user equipment set, and the time information carried in the DCI specifically includes a sequence number of the user equipment in the user equipment set for sending the uplink information after a preset time point, where the preset time point is a parameter received by the user equipment from the DCI or the system message, or a parameter preset in the user equipment.