A method for transporting common control information includes: transmitting, by a transmitting end, to the common control information on M time-domain resources through M transmission resources, where each of the time-domain resources includes N time-domain symbols. The time-domain resource where the common control information of each of the transmission resources is located is determined according to a resource index of a transmission resource or determined according to the resource index of the transmission resource and a value of N, and M and N are positive integers.