In a service offloading method and a base station that are provided in the present invention, a base station is used to determine an offloading decision according to the preset (ANDSF) policy, the load information of the access point (AP), the service type information of the user equipment (UE), and load information, which is recorded in the base station, of a 3GPP network, and deliver the offloading decision to the UE, so that the UE offloads the service to the 3GPP network or a wide local area network (WLAN) according to the offloading decision. With the offloading method, an optimal network for offloading can be selected according to load information of all networks for a service performed on UE, occurrence of phenomena of network load imbalance can be reduced, and service experience of a user is improved.