A power control method and device are disclosed. The method comprises: a user equipment receiving a power adjustment value corresponding to transmit diversity determined and sent by a network side device; the user equipment determines a transmission power for a PUCCH transmission according to the power adjustment value. In the embodiment of the present invention, the transmission power adopted by the transmission PUCCH channel is determined according to the power adjustment value corresponding to the transmission diversity, solving the problem of inaccurate power control after introducing the PUCCH transmission diversity, so that each PUCCH format is capable of performing transmission diversity power control independently.