What is the service industry?

Service industry refers to the business of providing services to the society by using equipment, tools, places, information or skills, including agency, hotel, catering, tourism, warehousing, leasing, advertising and other services.

Service industry refers to the industry in the era of electronic information. Generally speaking, service industry refers to the collection of production departments and enterprises engaged in service products. Compared with other industrial products, service products have the characteristics of intangibility, non-storability and the simultaneity of production and consumption.

In the actual work of national economic accounting in China, service industry is regarded as the tertiary industry, that is, service industry is defined as all other industrial sectors except agriculture and industry. ?

Extended data:

Modern service industry is divided into producer service industry and consumer service industry.

The consumer service industry is divided into four parts:

1, basic services, including communication services and information services;

2. Production and market services, including professional services such as finance, logistics, wholesale, e-commerce, agricultural support services and intermediary consulting;

3. Personal consumption services, including education, medical care, accommodation, catering, culture and entertainment, tourism, real estate, commodity retail, etc. ;

4. Public service industry, including government public management services, basic education, public health, medical care and public welfare information services.

Personal consumption service industry and public service industry are typical consumption service industry, and also the main forms of consumption service industry, that is, "basic necessities of life, medical education, health care" around us.

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