我国各级政府非常关心国民的精神生活和个体素质的提高,长期以来一直很注重终身教育,并大力推进学习化社区的建设工作。本文希望通过对“终身教育”和“学习化社区”本质和内涵的分析,搞清两者在理论和实践上的区别和关联,明确创建终身教育体制和建设学习化社区的长远目标和近? The Chinese government at all levels are very much concerned about the improvement of the people’s spiritual life and individual qualities. For a long time, they have always attached great importance to lifelong education and vigorously promoted the construction of a learning community. This paper hopes to find out the differences and correlation between the two in theory and in practice through the analysis of the essence and connotation of “lifelong education” and “learning community”, to clarify the long-term goal of establishing lifelong education system and building learning community?