Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a clipping method and an apparatus. The clipping apparatus is a base station, and the base station includes a baseband unit (BBU) and a remote radio unit (RRU). The BBU includes a first processor, and the RRU includes a second processor. The first processor is configured to: perform clipping after combining N input carriers, and output N carriers obtained after a first level of clipping; and the second processor is configured to: perform clipping after combining the N carriers obtained after the first level of clipping, and output N carriers obtained after a second level of clipping, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. The base station separately performs clipping at the BBU and the RRU, so that the base station can flexibly select, a baseband processing board or a baseband chip to deploy the first level of clipping.