A method for transmitting common control information, a method for receiving common control information, a base station, a terminal and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: configuring the number m of synchronization signal blocks to be transmitted in a slot based on the number of symbols contained in the slot; associating symbols occupied by a common control channel with the m synchronization signal blocks based on the number m; and using beams for transmitting the m synchronization signal blocks to transmit to a terminal downlink control information of common control information corresponding to the associated symbols occupied by the common control channel, so that the terminal receives the common control information in a physical downlink shared channel indicated by the downlink control information. By the embodiments, common control information is transmitted using beam sweeping with relatively low communication resource consumption.