A system for remotely controlling a smart television and a control method are disclosed. The system includes a channel management module for adjusting a resource of channel numbers and adjusting distribution and use of a corresponding resource according to the resource of the channel numbers after receiving a remote control request, an application management module for receiving a media file and a resource of an application and deploying the media file and the resource of the application in the smart television after receiving the remote control request, and a remote control module for transmitting the remote control request to the two above-mentioned modules after receiving an operation instruction. The present invention improves the remote control ability of the system.