Embodiments of this application disclose a power control method, and belong to the field of wireless communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, signaling from a radio access network device; learning, by the terminal device based on the signaling, of a slot of power control information required by the terminal device to perform uplink sending; and obtaining, by the terminal device in the slot of the power control information required for uplink sending, the power control information required for uplink sending, so that the terminal device dynamically obtains uplink power control information of the terminal device without being based on a static uplink-downlink subframe configuration in the prior art.