Service industry refers to businesses that utilize equipment, tools, premises, information or skills to provide services to the community, including agency, hotel, catering, tourism, warehousing, leasing, advertising and other services.

Service industry is a general term for industries in the electronic information age. The service industry is generally considered to refer to the collection of production sectors and enterprises engaged in service products. Compared with other industrial products, service products are characterized by non-physicality, non-storability and simultaneity of production and consumption.

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

Expanded Information:

Modern service industry is divided into two categories: production services, consumer services.

The consumer service industry is divided into four parts:

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

2, production and market services, including finance, logistics, wholesale, e-commerce, agricultural support services, and intermediary consulting and other professional services;

3, personal consumer services, including education, health care, accommodation

3. Personal consumption services, including education, healthcare, accommodation, catering, culture and entertainment, tourism, real estate, retailing of commodities, etc.

4. Public ****service industry, including governmental public ****management services, basic education, public ****sanitation, healthcare, and public welfare information services, etc.

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Personal consumer services and public **** services are typical consumer services, but also the main form of consumer services, that is, around us, "food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical, science, education, culture and health".

Baidu Encyclopedia - Service Industry