Legal basis: Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Community Service Industry Article 1 Community service industry is a new type of social service industry developed during the reform and opening up. Community service industry is a kind of residential service industry with social welfare nature, which is advocated by the government and supported by community organizations such as streets, towns and neighborhood committees to meet the various needs of social members. Community service industry consists of community welfare service industry, convenience service industry and employee social insurance management service industry, which is an important industry in social security system and socialized service system. Community service industry has four characteristics: welfare, mass, service and regionality. Since 1987, when the Ministry of Civil Affairs initiated this undertaking, it has begun to take shape in large and medium-sized cities across the country. By the end of 1992, there were 165438+2000 community service facilities with community service centers as the backbone for the elderly, the disabled and the entitled groups. The pattern of community service industry with service and convenience for the people as the main content, developing community service entities and enhancing self-development ability. As a new way to explore social welfare office and employee welfare opening to the society in the new era, community service has adapted to the needs of government's transformation of functions and enterprises' transformation of operating mechanism, is conducive to economic development, social stability, improvement of people's quality of life, and promotes the construction of spiritual civilization in the community, and has been welcomed by the broad masses of grassroots cadres and masses.