A method for measuring and reporting resource in a long term evolution system comprises: a source base station encapsulating a resource status request message and sending the message to a target base station; after receiving the resource status request message, the target base station processing the message, and sending a resource status success response to the source base station if the processing is successful, or else sending a resource status failure response if the processing is failed; the source base station encapsulating at least a message type (2), a measurement request type (3), a source base station global identifier (4) and measurement configuration information (5) in the resource status request message, wherein, the measurement request type (3) is one or more of start, modify and end (7); the measurement configuration information (5) is measurement configuration information (5) in current measurement request type (3). The method makes it convenient to start, modify or end the current measurement by the target base station during network operation after a plurality of resource status measuring and reporting are launched between base stations, and thus reducing the number of information exchange between base stations.