A method and a device for reporting channel quality information are provided by the present invention, the method comprising that: measuring, by a user equipment (UE), Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) according to the configuration information of the CSI-RS, to acquire a downlink channel transport matrix (101); determining, by the UE, Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) of a frequency domain reporting unit according to the number of CSI-RS ports and the corresponding transmission scheme of the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) used when determining the CQI, and the downlink channel transport matrix acquired by measurement (102); reporting, by the UE, the determined CQI to network side (103). The present invention can realize measurement and reporting of CSI-RS-based channel quality information on the basis of non-Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) feedback transmissions.