Disclosed in the present disclosure is an application loading method, including: an M2M terminal module starts up an application manager after being powered up and initialized; the application manager receives a load application instruction and creates a load thread; and the load thread loads an application according to a load application instruction and ends the load thread after the execution of the application is completed. Also disclosed in the present disclosure is an application loading device. By way of the method and device in the present disclosure, the compile efficiency is improved, and it is advantageous for terminal maintenance, and the service function is realized when executing an independent application.