The invention belongs to a receiving processing method in a single-carrier wireless communication system. The method comprises: carrying out down-conversion treatment, A/D conversion, cyclic prefix removal, FFT treatment, communication channel estimation, linear equalization, demodulation, decoding and subsequent demodulation on a received transmitting signal. The invention is characterized by directly carrying out demodulation after carrying out linear equalization at a receiving terminal; then carrying out decoding treatment which contains bit log likelihood ratio treatment, candidate symbol vector listing and maximum likelihood treatment; and finally demodulating and sending the decoded data. In the invention, the error rate is only 15-50% of that of the background technology and is equivalent to that of the SD (spherical decoding) technology with higher complexity, and the performance gain can be improved by about 5dB; and under the condition of the same spectrum effectiveness, the invention has the characteristics that the receiving processing complexity of the communication system is low, the performance of the SC-FDE system is obviously improved, the error rate is greatly reduced, the communication quality, the reliability and the transmission efficiency are effectively improved, etc.