Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink control channel sending method, an uplink control channel receiving method, and an apparatus. The sending method includes: receiving, by terminal device, downlink data from a network device in each subframe in a first subframe set; obtaining, by the terminal device, first downlink control information from the network device; and sending, by the terminal device, a target physical uplink control channel in a first uplink subframe according to an indication of the first downlink control information.