A communication method and apparatus, the method including obtaining, by a distributed unit (DU), resource occupation information of network slices that are in at least two public land mobile networks (PLMNs) supported by a cell of the DU, where the network slices in the at least two PLMNs share a resource, sending, by the DU, the resource occupation information to a centralized unit (CU), receiving, by the DU, request information from a terminal, where the request information comprises an identifier of a first PLMN and an identifier of a first network slice, and where the request information is used by the terminal to request to access the first network slice that is in the first PLMN, and sending, by the DU, the request information to the CU.