An acknowledgement information sending method and apparatus is provided. A network device determines and sends downlink scheduling signaling, where the downlink scheduling signaling is used to schedule first downlink data to a terminal, the first downlink data is downlink data corresponding to acknowledgement information fed back on a same uplink control channel, and the downlink scheduling signaling is used to determine a first threshold, a second threshold, or a third threshold. The terminal receives the downlink scheduling signaling sent by the network device, determines, based on the first threshold, the second threshold, or the third threshold, the acknowledgement information corresponding to the first downlink data, and sends the acknowledgement information corresponding to the first downlink data to the network device on the same uplink control channel.