The present invention provides a cell measurement method, a user equipment, and a base station. A cell measurement method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes receiving, by a user equipment, a neighbor cell list of a serving cell of a base station, wherein the neighbor cell list corresponds to a frequency, is sent by the base station, and includes a list of all neighboring cells at the frequency and information indicating whether each neighboring cell in the list of all neighboring cells can be measured by at least one of a first type of user equipment and a second type of user equipment at the frequency corresponding to the neighbor cell list. The cell measurement method also includes performing, by the user equipment, cell measurement according to the neighbor cell list.