A method and apparatus for indicating downlink physical resources scheduling in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes sending downlink control information to a User Equipment (UE) on a first component carrier by an evolved Node B (eNB), wherein single downlink control information is used to schedule physical resources in at least one downlink sub-frame of one of a plurality of component carriers at a time, the plurality of component carriers including the first component carrier, a second component carrier, . . . , a kth component carrier, wherein k is greater than or equal to 2, receiving the downlink control information on the first component carrier, and receiving downlink data according to the downlink control information by the UE. The present invention can achieve a peak data rate to reach the design target of International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-Advanced system.