Embodiments of this application disclose an information sending or receiving method at user equipment, which includes: determining a frame structure of a serving cell, where a radio frame corresponding to the frame structure includes at least one downlink subframe, at least one uplink subframe, and at least one special subframe, and the special subframe is a first special subframe or a second special subframe; and sending or receiving information in the serving cell based on the frame structure, where the special subframe includes a symbol used for downlink transmission, a guard period, and a symbol used for uplink transmission, a quantity of symbols used for downlink transmission is greater than a quantity of symbols used for uplink transmission in the first special subframe, and a quantity of symbols used for downlink transmission is less than a quantity of symbols used for uplink transmission in the second special subframe.