Township public service centers belong to the category of public welfare, and there are five categories of public welfare: education and scientific research: special education institutions such as primary and secondary schools, deaf-mute schools, examination institutions, reformist party schools, socialist colleges, including some basic education or social public welfare scientific research institutions. Culture and sports: public libraries, archives, museums, memorial halls, art galleries, science and technology museums, group art museums, archaeological protection of cultural relics, literature information, radio and television signal transmission and technical monitoring, sports schools, sports lottery centers, sports federations, etc. Health services: CDC, Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Mental Health Service Center, Blood Station, Township Health Center, Community Health Service Center, etc. Social security: rescue stations, legal aid service centers, public employment service centers, talent exchange centers, social welfare institutions, student financial assistance management service centers, retired cadres service centers, etc. Public services: radio monitoring institutions, emergency materials storage institutions, agricultural machinery service centers, economic and social investigation and statistics institutions, fishing boat inspection and plant quarantine institutions, earthquake, environment, network, hydrology, price monitoring institutions, public resource trading centers, and soil storage.

The so-called public welfare category refers to the units or institutions that undertake basic public welfare services such as compulsory education, basic scientific research, public culture, public health and basic medical services at the grassroots level, and cannot or should not allocate resources by the market.