The present disclosure provides a sidelink communication method, a terminal and network equipment. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal, resource configuration information sent by first network equipment; entering a distributed resource scheduling mode to perform sidelink communication with a second terminal if the resource configuration information sent by the first network equipment includes first preset information, otherwise, establishing connection with second network equipment, and receiving resource configuration information sent by the second network equipment; entering the distributed resource scheduling mode to perform sidelink communication with the second terminal if the resource configuration information sent by the second network equipment includes second preset information; entering a centralized resource scheduling mode to perform sidelink communication with the second terminal if the resource configuration information sent by the second network equipment includes third preset information.