The invention discloses a method for switching between base stations. The method is used for realizing the switching of user equipment between the base stations and improving network load. The method comprises the following steps that: a first base station sends switching request messages to adjacent base stations per se; the adjacent base stations judge whether to accept the switching according to the information in the switching request messages and send judgment results to the first base station through request response messages; the first base station determines a target base station from the adjacent base stations which can accept the switching and sends a switching acknowledgment message to the target base station; after receiving the switching acknowledgment message, the target base station distributes resources to the user equipment and sends the distributed resources to the first base station through a switching acknowledgment response message; and after receiving the switching acknowledgement response message, the first base station indicates the user equipment to switch to the target base station. The invention also discloses a device for implementing the method.