1, similarity: both urban and rural communities are social communities in a certain region. Although there are many differences between rural communities and urban communities in industry, lifestyle and spatial distribution mode, as far as social organizations are concerned, they are all social communities within a certain geographical scope. Urban community is generally a social life community composed of people in streets, lanes or statutory and planned areas.

2. Differences As far as China is concerned, different historical backgrounds and realistic conditions determine that urban and rural communities have many different characteristics. Urban and rural communities have different birth backgrounds. 1In the early 1990s, with the economic and social transformation, the unit system gradually disintegrated, more and more people in the unit became social people, more and more individuals, private enterprise employees and floating population, laid-off workers and retirees also increased significantly, and the tasks of urban grass-roots management increased, so the traditional unit system management system could not bear the responsibility. At the same time, in the process of social change, social forces have gradually developed and expanded, and the government can no longer infiltrate all fields of society in an arranged way. Facing the new situation and new tasks of social development, in order to achieve the goal of social integration, urban communities have become the basic units of urban grassroots social management.