The invention discloses a method for reducing an uplink data transmission bandwidth in a distributed base station. On the side of a radio remote unit, processing on antenna carrier data after intermediate frequency processing is carried out is divided into an A branch and a B branch. The A branch comprises the following steps: removing CPs from the antenna carrier data, obtaining time domain data and carrying out a fast Fourier transforming on the time domain data, obtaining frequency domain data, removing a virtual subcarrier from the frequency domain data, obtaining a valid subcarrier containing PRACHs, decomposing the valid subcarrier according to RBs, removing the RBs occupied by the invalid PRACHs, and finally obtaining valid base band data. The B branch comprises the following steps: obtaining complete PRACH information from the antenna carrier data, removing CPs from the PRACH information, obtaining a PRACH detection signal, carrying out smoothing extraction on the PRACH detection signal, and obtaining a valid PRACH detection signal. The valid base band data and the valid PRACH detection signal are mapped to a transmission unit and sent to a base band processing unit. The invention further discloses the radio remote unit. According to the method for reducing the uplink data transmission bandwidth in the distributed base station and the radio remote unit, the data transmission bandwidth between the radio remote unit and the base band processing unit can be further reduced.