李茂平在《东南学术》2012年第4期撰文认为,志愿服务是志愿组织开展的旨在推动社会道德文明进步的非政府性、非营利性、志愿性、公益性行动。近年来,志愿服务在农村不断普及和发展,在新农村道德建设中发挥着提升农民道德品质、救助农村困难群体、推进农村民主管理、促进农村和谐发展的重要作 Li Mao-ping in “Southeast Academic” 2012 the fourth author believes that volunteer service is volunteer organizations to carry out non-governmental, non-profit, voluntary, non-profit action aimed at promoting social moral and civilized progress. In recent years, volunteer service has been popularized and developed in rural areas. In the construction of new countryside morals, it plays an important role in raising peasants’ moral character, helping rural disadvantaged groups, promoting rural democratic management and promoting rural harmonious development