政府向社会力量购买服务,就是通过发挥市场机制作用,把政府直接向社会公众提供的公共服务等事项,按照一定的方式和程序,交由具备资质的社会组织承担,并由政府根据服务的数量和质量向其支付费用的行为。党的十八届三中全会提出:“推广政府购买服务,凡属事务性管理服务,原则上都要引入竞争机制,通过合同、委托等方式向社会购买。”国务院办公厅出台了《关于政府向社会力量购买服务的指导意见》,对 The government purchases services from social forces by giving play to the role of market mechanism and public services provided directly by the government to the public and other public services in accordance with certain methods and procedures and entrusted to qualified social organizations for government service according to the number of services And quality paid to them. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee proposed: “Promoting the government to purchase services, where services are managed in an administrative manner, should in principle be introduced into the competition mechanism and purchased from the society through contracts, commissions, etc.” The General Office of the State Council promulgated the “ Guiding Opinions on Purchasing Services by the Government to Social Forces. ”