Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and a communications apparatus. A source base station instructs a terminal to hand over from the source base station to a target base station, and sends, to the terminal, configuration information of a second connection required for communication between the terminal and the target base station. The terminal maintains a first connection for communication with the source base station, and establishes the second connection for communication with the target base station based on the configuration information of the second connection. The solutions in the embodiments of this application reduces latency in a handover process.