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This application discloses a communications method and apparatus, the method including sending a synchronization/broadcast signal block of a serving cell or a camping cell, sending at least one piece of cell measurement configuration information to a terminal device, where the at least one piece of cell measurement configuration information comprises N pieces of information indicating actual sending of a synchronization/broadcast signal block, and the N pieces of information indicating actual sending of a synchronization/broadcast signal block are used to indicate information about actually sent synchronization/broadcast signal blocks of M cells, where 1≤N≤M, where M is a quantity of measurement cells of the terminal device, and where both N and M are positive integers, and sending synchronization/broadcast signal blocks of the M measurement cells.