The present disclosure discloses a media content rendering method. The method is applied in a user equipment (UE) in a rendering system. The method includes determining, according to a rendering requirement of to-be-rendered media content, that a part of the to-be-rendered media content is to be rendered by a cloud device; sending, to the cloud device, a rendering indication message and first media content that needs to be rendered by the cloud device, where the rendering indication message is used to instruct the cloud device to render the first media content; and receiving a cloud processing result returned by the cloud device for the first media content. The UE can perform collaboratively rendering with the cloud device for the to-be-rendered media content, so that rendering resources of the UE and the cloud device are effectively used, and media content rendering efficiency is improved.