The government, with the constant promotion of reform and opening-upto the management system of the service trade, its reform is very urgent, thistext speaks of from the meaning of the service trade, touch upon differentmanagement modes to the service trade under planned economic system andmarket economic system, the government proposed the pertinence measure tothe management of the service trade to the present stage of our country. According to the definition which American Department of Commerceand Department of Labor use, it mean mainly service trade engaged inindividualing , enterprise , government department with and organization notother last in extensive range all kinds of service activity of trades not relevant,if hotel , communications and transportation , public utilities , selling inbatches retailing , public management , finance , insurance , real estate ,etc.

根据美国商务部和劳工部所使用的定义,服务业是指主要从事向个人、企业、政府部门以及其他组织机构提供范围广泛的各类服务活动相关行业,如旅馆、交通运输、公用事业、批发零售、公共管理、金融、保险、不动产等。