Community refers to a large residential building with relatively independent living environment built in a certain area of the city, equipped with complete sets of living service facilities, such as commercial outlets, schools (kindergartens) and so on.

Neighborhood and residential areas are generally called "residential areas", which refer to residential areas, garden houses, residential groups and non-residential houses with corresponding public facilities. Characteristics of the community: diversity of housing forms; Unified planning; Diversity of community functions; Diversification of housing property rights; Modern sociality of residential quarters.