Embodiments of the present invention provide a discontinuous reception communication synchronization method and apparatus. The discontinuous reception communication synchronization method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: receiving a paging message delivered by a network element of a core network, where the paging message includes an extended discontinuous reception (DRX) indicator and/or extended DRX; calculating a paging time according to the extended DRX indicator and/or the extended DRX; and paging a terminal at the paging time. The embodiments of the present invention resolve a problem of extra power consumption caused by that a terminal frequently listens to a paging message during a process of communicating with a network, and also avoid a paging loss caused by that DRX between the terminal and the network is asynchronous.