Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for reporting channel state information, including receiving a sounding signal set sent by the base station and determining a reference signal resource configuration index according to the sounding signal set, where the reference signal resource configuration index is used to indicate a reference signal resource configuration in reference signal resource configuration set information. The method also includes receiving a reference signal set sent by the base station, where the reference signal set corresponds to the reference signal resource configuration and determining channel state information according to the reference signal set. Additionally, the method includes sending the reference signal resource configuration index and the channel state information to the base station.
