A method for energy savings control of an inter-RAT base station, comprising: obtaining (101, 201, 301), by a local system, status information of a foreign system cell in a foreign system, performing (105, 106, 107, 205, 206, 207, 305, 306, 307) an energy savings control judgment according to the status information of the foreign system cell and the status information of a local system cell which covers the same or neighboring area with the foreign system cell, and waking up (108, 208, 308) the foreign system cell or the local system cell or making the foreign system cell or the local system cell hibernate according to a judgment result; wherein the status information of the cell includes whether to be in an energy savings status; wherein the local system cell belongs to a local system base station, the foreign system cell belongs to a foreign system base station, and both the local system base station and the foreign system base station are the inter-RAT base station to each other; wherein, the obtaining the status information of the foreign system cell is: the local system sending an inter-RAT cell information request message to the foreign system, and obtaining the status information of the foreign system cell from a received inter-RAT cell information response message of the foreign system; wherein the inter-RAT cell information request message and the inter-RAT cell information response message are carried by a base station direct information transfer, eNB DIRECT INFORMATION TRANSFER, message and a mobility management entity direct information transfer, MME DIRECT INFORMATION TRANSFER, message between a base station and an MME respectively, or carried by a base station configuration transfer, eNB CONFIGURATION TRANSFER, message and an MME configuration transfer, MME CONFIGURATION TRANSFER, message respectively. obtaining (101, 201, 301), by a local system, status information of a foreign system cell in a foreign system, performing (105, 106, 107, 205, 206, 207, 305, 306, 307) an energy savings control judgment according to the status information of the foreign system cell and the status information of a local system cell which covers the same or neighboring area with the foreign system cell, and waking up (108, 208, 308) the foreign system cell or the local system cell or making the foreign system cell or the local system cell hibernate according to a judgment result; wherein the status information of the cell includes whether to be in an energy savings status; wherein the local system cell belongs to a local system base station, the foreign system cell belongs to a foreign system base station, and both the local system base station and the foreign system base station are the inter-RAT base station to each other; wherein, the obtaining the status information of the foreign system cell is: the local system sending an inter-RAT cell information request message to the foreign system, and obtaining the status information of the foreign system cell from a received inter-RAT cell information response message of the foreign system; wherein the inter-RAT cell information request message and the inter-RAT cell information response message are carried by a base station direct information transfer, eNB DIRECT INFORMATION TRANSFER, message and a mobility management entity direct information transfer, MME DIRECT INFORMATION TRANSFER, message between a base station and an MME respectively, or carried by a base station configuration transfer, eNB CONFIGURATION TRANSFER, message and an MME configuration transfer, MME CONFIGURATION TRANSFER, message respectively. the local system sending an inter-RAT cell information request message to the foreign system, and obtaining the status information of the foreign system cell from a received inter-RAT cell information response message of the foreign system; wherein the inter-RAT cell information request message and the inter-RAT cell information response message are carried by a base station direct information transfer, eNB DIRECT INFORMATION TRANSFER, message and a mobility management entity direct information transfer, MME DIRECT INFORMATION TRANSFER, message between a base station and an MME respectively, or carried by a base station configuration transfer, eNB CONFIGURATION TRANSFER, message and an MME configuration transfer, MME CONFIGURATION TRANSFER, message respectively.