The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for reducing an echo, which apply a first stage adaptive filter to a downlink reference signal to obtain a first stage filtered signal and a first error signal; after performing a K-path gain process and a K-path pre-distortion process to the downlink reference signal, apply the at least one second stage adaptive filter to a K-path pre-distorted signal to obtain a second stage filtered signal and a second error signal; and perform a minimum value fusion process to the first error signal and the second error signal so as to obtain a residue signal, which is considered as a final output of adaptive echo cancellation. Accordingly, the present disclosure realizes steadily providing a relatively high echo loss under a circumstance that a speaker suffers a relatively great distortion.