This application provides a communications method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a media access control (MAC) entity, M radio link control (RLC) protocol data units PDUs, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and generating, by the MAC entity, N media access control MAC protocol data units (PDUs) based on a logical channel corresponding to each of the M RLC PDUs, where any two RLC PDUs corresponding to a same logical channel and having consecutive RLC sequence numbers are carried in different MAC PDUs, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. Consecutive RLC PDUs are placed into different MAC PDUs, so that a continuous packet loss of a same service can be avoided, and transmission reliability can be improved.