A wireless communication method and apparatus for improving communication failure recovery efficiency. The method is applied to a terminal or a chip used in a terminal, and includes: upon detecting that downlink communication of the first serving cell fails, determining that downlink communication of the second serving cell is normal; sending a communication failure recovery request on an uplink channel of the second serving cell, where the communication failure recovery request is used to request to recover from a downlink communication failure of the first serving cell; and detecting a communication failure recovery response on a downlink channel of the second serving cell, where the communication failure recovery response is used to indicate a downlink communication resource of the first serving cell.