The present invention discloses a time division duplex TDD communication method, including: reserving, by a base station, in a second subframe, acknowledgment channel resources for each subframe in a first subframe set, where acknowledgement channel resources reserved for at least two subframes in the first subframe set completely or partly overlap; and transmitting, by the base station, in the first subframe set, data with a first user equipment. By using the method of the present invention, because acknowledgement channel resources reserved for at least two subframes in the first subframe set completely or partly overlap, overheads of acknowledgment channel resources reserved for the first subframe set are small when there are a large quantity of subframes in the first subframe set.