The present application provides a control method for power configuration on a heterogeneous network, and a user equipment. The control method for power configuration includes: determining whether the user equipment is in a soft handover area, in which a macro base station is used as a serving base station, between uplink and downlink balance points; when the user equipment is in the soft handover area, in which the macro base station is used as the serving base station, between the uplink and downlink balance points, increasing power of a dedicated physical control channel, so that the serving base station can normally receive a signal from the user equipment; and adjusting a power offset of an enhanced dedicated physical data channel to a first power offset, where the first power offset is any value in a flat area of an optimal power offset of the user equipment.