Embodiments of this application disclose a communication method and a communications apparatus, to be used by a terminal device to monitor a control channel on a corresponding resource, to implement communication between a network device and a terminal device of this type. A first terminal device monitors a first control channel on M REGbundles in W REGbundles or on M CCE resources corresponding to the M REGbundles. In this solution, a network device can configure a control channel resource for the first terminal device and a second terminal device, and the first terminal device and the second terminal device belong to different types of terminal devices, so that communication reliability of the first terminal device can be ensured without affecting a communication resource of the second terminal device.