摘要：【中文】本申请提供一种流量控制方法及装置，涉及通信技术领域，用于中继设备指示上级节点进行流量控制，避免由于上级节点的下行传输数据量过大而造成中继节点拥塞或者上级节点传输的数据过小而浪费频谱资源。所述方法包括：第一节点确定指示第二节点实施流量控制；第一节点向第二节点发送第一流量控制指示，第一流量控制指示承载在适配层控制信令或者RLC控制消息或者MAC CE中，第一流量控制指示用于第二节点根据第一流量控制指示控制向第一节点传输的数据速率，第一流量控制指示包括：一个或多个承载的标识，流量控制信息，所述第二节点为中继节点或宿主基站。 【EN】The application provides a flow control method and a flow control device, relates to the technical field of communication, and is used for indicating a superior node to perform flow control by a relay device, so that the problem that the relay node is congested due to the fact that the downlink transmission data volume of the superior node is too large or the spectrum resource is wasted due to the fact that the data transmitted by the superior node is too small is avoided. The method comprises the following steps: the first node determines to instruct the second node to implement flow control; the first node sends a first flow control instruction to the second node, wherein the first flow control instruction is carried in adaptation layer control signaling or RLC control message or MAC CE, the first flow control instruction is used for the second node to control the data rate transmitted to the first node according to the first flow control instruction, and the first flow control instruction comprises: one or more bearing identifiers and flow control information, wherein the second node is a relay node or a host base station.