A communication method and a communication apparatus are described. A network device explicitly indicates, by using indication information, a transmission priority of data that can be carried on a scheduled transmission resource. After receiving the indication information, a terminal device can determine whether data currently to be sent can be sent on the scheduled transmission resource, to reduce a probability of a communication failure caused by resource preemption in a scenario in which data of at least three transmission priorities coexists. The terminal device may further determine, based on the indication information, whether to-be-received data exists on the scheduled transmission resource.