Method for enabling terminal to establish wireless connection automatically and terminal

The invention provides a method for enabling a terminal to establish wireless connection automatically and the terminal. The method comprises the steps that a wireless access point is searched for automatically, and if the wireless access point is searched out, the terminal establishes connection with the wireless access point; if no wireless access point is searched out, a wireless access point function of the terminal itself is started and wireless access requests of other terminals are received. The method realizes automatic wireless connection establishment of the terminal.