The embodiment of the invention provides a receiving method and a receiving apparatus. The receiving method includes: receiving signals including downlink control information mapped to a search space, wherein the search space comprises a plurality of candidates used for mapping the downlink control information through a transmission apparatus, each candidate comprises a control channel unit or a plurality of aggregated CCEs, a first aggregation level value used for centralized dispatch is less than a second aggregation level value used for distributed dispatch, the CCEs included in the candidate are centralized in a frequency domain in the centralized dispatch, at least a part of the CCEs included in the candidate are distributed in the distributed dispatch, and the search space is configured on a data region of a downlink sub-frame; and decoding the search space to obtain the downlink control information mapped to the search space including one of the plurality of candidates.