Community construction refers to a kind of community work, which refers to the process of relying on social forces and using social resources to strengthen community functions, improve community services, solve community problems, promote the harmonious and healthy development of community politics, economy, culture and environment, and continuously improve the living standards and quality of life of community members. Community construction is a new topic, and vigorously promoting community construction is an inevitable requirement for China's urban economic and social development to a certain stage and an important way for China's urban modernization in the new century.

The so-called community refers to the social life of people living in a certain range. Urban community refers to a grass-roots society composed of a certain scale of people engaged in various non-agricultural labor occupations in a specific urban area. Urban community construction refers to urban grass-roots society, with the support and guidance of the party and the government, through adjusting and strengthening community autonomous organizations and other community organizations, relying on community strength, using community resources, integrating community functions, developing community undertakings, improving community economic, social and cultural environment, and integrating communities into the social life of the whole country.