A measurement result reporting method, comprising: Receiving, by user equipment, a measurement configuration of an unlicensed spectrum cell sent by a base station, wherein the measurement configuration comprises a trigger condition, an average signal strength, and a signal strength related time ratio; measuring, by the user equipment, the average signal strength and the signal strength related time ratio of the unlicensed spectrum cell according to the measurement configuration; and sending, by the user equipment, a measurement result of the average signal strength and the signal strength related time ratio to the base station when at least one of the average signal strength or the signal strength related time ratio meets the trigger condition; wherein the signal strength related time ratio is a ratio of a total time corresponding to signal strengths that are in the signal strengths and that are greater than or equal to a first strength threshold to a measurement time of the user equipment for the unlicensed spectrum cell; wherein the measurement configuration further comprises a discovery signal measurement timing configuration DMTC, and the measurement result further comprises a time window ratio; and before the sending, by the user equipment, a measurement result to the base station, the method further comprises: obtaining, by the user equipment, a quantity of DMTCs, N DMTC_valid, that are in DMTCs measured by the user equipment and for which a discovery reference signal DRS of the unlicensed spectrum cell is obtained, and a quantity of the DMTCs, N DMTC, measured by the user equipment; and obtaining, by the user equipment, the time window ratio, wherein the time window ratio is a ratio of N DMTC_valid to N DMTC. Receiving, by user equipment, a measurement configuration of an unlicensed spectrum cell sent by a base station, wherein the measurement configuration comprises a trigger condition, an average signal strength, and a signal strength related time ratio; measuring, by the user equipment, the average signal strength and the signal strength related time ratio of the unlicensed spectrum cell according to the measurement configuration; and sending, by the user equipment, a measurement result of the average signal strength and the signal strength related time ratio to the base station when at least one of the average signal strength or the signal strength related time ratio meets the trigger condition; wherein the signal strength related time ratio is a ratio of a total time corresponding to signal strengths that are in the signal strengths and that are greater than or equal to a first strength threshold to a measurement time of the user equipment for the unlicensed spectrum cell; wherein the measurement configuration further comprises a discovery signal measurement timing configuration DMTC, and the measurement result further comprises a time window ratio; and before the sending, by the user equipment, a measurement result to the base station, the method further comprises: obtaining, by the user equipment, a quantity of DMTCs, N DMTC_valid, that are in DMTCs measured by the user equipment and for which a discovery reference signal DRS of the unlicensed spectrum cell is obtained, and a quantity of the DMTCs, N DMTC, measured by the user equipment; and obtaining, by the user equipment, the time window ratio, wherein the time window ratio is a ratio of N DMTC_valid to N DMTC.