The present invention provides a communication method includes: determining, by a base station, radio frame configuration information; sending, by the base station, the determined radio frame configuration information to user equipment UE, where the radio frame configuration information is used to instruct the UE to set at least one of N consecutive downlink subframes of one radio frame as a first subframe, and/or the radio frame configuration information is used to instruct the UE to set at least one of M consecutive uplink subframes of one radio frame as a second subframe, where the first subframe is used for uplink service transmission, the second subframe is used for downlink service transmission, and N and M are positive integers not less than 2; and communicating, by the base station, with the UE by using a radio frame configured according to the radio frame configuration information.