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This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a polar coding/decoding method and apparatus, to improve sequence lookup efficiency. The method includes: obtaining a first sequence from a polar code construction sequence table based on a coding parameter, where the polar code construction sequence table includes at least one coding parameter and at least one sequence corresponding to the at least one coding parameter, the coding parameter is mapped to the sequence in a one-to-one manner, the first sequence is one of the at least one sequence; and selecting serial numbers of K polarized channels from the first sequence based on a rate matching scheme and/or a reliability order, placing to-be-coded bits based on the selected serial numbers of the K polarized channels, and performing polar coding, to obtain a coded bit sequence.