Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for controlling data transmission on a radio communication network. The method includes: acquiring, by a base station, transmission attribute information, where the transmission attribute information includes attribute information of to-be-transmitted data and scheduling attribute information of the base station; and judging whether the acquired scheduling attribute information of the base station meets a preset scheduling condition; and if yes, the base station sends a scheduling suspension message and/or a scheduling start message to a terminal according to the transmission attribute information.