The method includes: determining, by user equipment, first uplink control information and second uplink control information, where a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information is less than a length of a time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information; and when the time domain resource corresponding to the first uplink control information overlaps with the time domain resource corresponding to the second uplink control information, transmitting, by the user equipment, third uplink control information on the overlapping time domain resource, where the third uplink control information includes at least one of fourth uplink control information and fifth uplink control information, the fourth uplink control information includes some or all of the first uplink control information, and the fifth uplink control information includes some or all of the second uplink control information.