Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data transmission method, a base station, and a terminal. The method includes: configuring a band of standard bandwidth within transmission bandwidth of a base station as terminal-specific standard bandwidth when the transmission bandwidth of the base station is nonstandard bandwidth; notifying a terminal of configuration information of the terminal-specific standard bandwidth; and performing data transmission with the terminal within the terminal-specific standard bandwidth. The preceding technical solution is applicable to data transmission between a base station and a terminal in a communication system.