The present invention discloses a sequence generation method and a base station. The method includes: determining, by a terminal, at least one first sequence according to at least one candidate sequence, where a length of the candidate sequence is less than a sequence length corresponding to a maximum available system bandwidth; and connecting, by the terminal, the at least one first sequence to generate a second sequence or directly using the at least one first sequence as a second sequence, and receiving a signal according to the second sequence, where the second sequence is at least one of a reference signal sequence or a scrambling code sequence.
