The invention provides a method for defrosting an air conditioning unit and the air conditioning unit. The method for defrosting the air conditioning unit comprises the steps that (1) the environment temperature T1 and the air absorption temperature T2 of a compressor of the air conditioning unit are detected; (2) when T2 is smaller than T3 and the running time t1 of the compressor is longer than the first preset time, if T4 is smaller than T1 and T1 is smaller than T5, the compressor is controlled to stop operating, a fan of an outdoor unit is controlled to operate, defrosting operation conducted by the fan is started, and after the fan is operated for the second preset time, defrosting operation is stopped, wherein T3 is the first preset temperature, T4 is the second preset temperature, and T5 is the third preset temperature. According to the method for defrosting the air conditioning unit, the compressor is controlled to stop operating, the fan of the outdoor unit is controlled to operate to conduct defrosting operation, the temperature of hot water in an indoor heat exchanger cannot be reduced in the defrosting process, and therefore the energy consumption amount of air conditioning unit heating is reduced. Meanwhile, in the defrosting process, the compressor stops operating and the energy consumption amount in the defrosting process is reduced.