The configuration information of the physical uplink control channel and/or the transmit power configuration information of the physical uplink control channel are mainly used by the UE to determine resource information of the corresponding physical uplink control channel that carries the initially transmitted downlink data and/or transmit power information of the physical uplink control channel that carries the acknowledgement information, or may be used by the UE to determine a base station to which the acknowledgement information is fed back or a base station that receives the resource information, or may be used by the UE to determine a base station responsible for retransmission. For example, in this embodiment, it is assumed that the base station 1 receives the acknowledgement information (an ACK or a NACK) fed back by the UE, and the base station 1 is responsible for data retransmission. The main control base station, that is, the base station 0, also notifies the base station 1 that the base station 1 is responsible for receiving the acknowledgement information and is responsible for retransmission. Specifically, the base station 0 may also send the configuration information of the physical uplink control channel to the base station 1 in advance, so that the base station 1 learns that retransmission is to be completed by the base station 1.