Example communication methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a terminal device receives configuration information of a first control resource set, where the configuration information of the first control resource set comprises mapping manner information of the first control resource set. The terminal device determines, based on the mapping manner information, a mapping manner between a control channel element (CCE) and resource element groups (REGs) in the first control resource set, where a REG in the first control resource set occupies one symbol in time domain and one resource block (RB) in frequency domain, and REGs in the first control resource set are numbered in a time-first manner. The mapping manner information indicates that the mapping manner is interleaved mapping.