Embodiments of this disclosure provide a communication method, and an associated communication apparatus, medium, and chip. In a communication method, a target access network device receives first information, where the first information indicates a relationship between a first network slice in a first network and a second network slice in a second network, and the first network is different from the second network. The target access network device performs access control from a terminal device to the target access network device based on at least the first information. In this manner, in embodiments of this disclosure, the target access network device can perform access control on the terminal device during cross-network access, to reduce an access latency, reduce a service interruption problem caused by session rejection of the terminal device, and ensure service continuity of the terminal device.