A method and an apparatus for configuring a channel resource, a base station, and a user equipment are disclosed. The method includes: determining load information of a cell; according to the load information, that the cell reaches a congested state, configuring channel resource configuration information for a new user equipment accessing the cell, where the configuration information includes: a first DPCH Pilot bit transmit power offset and/or a first number of pilot bits, the first DPCH Pilot bit transmit power offset is smaller than a power offset configured for a user equipment in a non-congested state, and the first number of Pilot bits is smaller than a number of Pilot bits that is configured for a user equipment in a non-congested state, and sending the configuration information to the new user equipment. The method can improve downlink throughput of the cell and reducing a call drop rate.