The invention discloses a method, a terminal, a base station and a system for backward channel signal transmission. The method is applied to the terminal and comprises the following steps: determining a backward channel set based on channels distributed by the base station, determining a target channel from the backward channel set according to a preset backward channel signal transmission policy, and monitoring the target channel so as to receive backward channel signals transmitted by the base station according to the backward channel signal transmission policy. By means of the technical scheme, when the terminal makes a call, no backward channels need to be monitored all the time, only the target channel needs to be monitored according to the backward channel signal transmission policy so that the time for terminal monitoring is shortened, and power consumption is reduced. Meanwhile, the base station does not need to transmit the backward channel signals periodically, but instead only needs to transmit the signals in the target channel according to the backward channel signal transmission policy. Therefore, the same backward channel signal only needs to be transmitted once, system resources of the base station can be saved, and resource waste can be avoided.