Embodiments of the present invention disclose a beamforming method, a receiver, a transmitter, and a system. The beamforming method includes: controlling, according to a preset rule, connection or disconnection of N analog channels corresponding to N antenna array elements, to obtain an independently received equivalent signal at each of the N antenna array elements, where N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2; obtaining, based on the independently received equivalent signal at each of the N antenna array elements, a beamforming weight; and sending the beamforming weight to a transmitter. According to the embodiments of the present invention, costs can be reduced, and relatively good interference suppression performance can be obtained.