In this embodiment of the present invention, when transmitting DCI, the network device determines the N pieces of to-be-jointly-coded DCI, and jointly codes the N pieces of DCI in the polar coding manner, to obtain one codeword. In this joint coding manner, a relatively high channel coding gain can be obtained, and DCI transmission reliability can be improved. In addition, because the polar coding manner is used, the user equipment can quickly obtain the DCI of the user equipment through sequential decoding, and perform a corresponding operation. Therefore, a relatively low average processing latency of the user equipment is obtained.
S20: The first device determines Q pieces of feedback information, where the Q pieces of feedback information are feedbacks for received data carried by P data transmission units, Q is an integer greater than or equal to 2, P is greater than or equal to Q, and P is an integer.
S21: The first device jointly codes the Q pieces of feedback information in a polar coding manner, to obtain one codeword.
S22: The first device maps the codeword to a corresponding time-frequency resource for sending.