Abstract: As a national system, social rescue is related to, but different from, social relief. Social relief is a temporary rescue measure and mostly found in unexpected disasters, such as natural disasters, dangerous diseases and so on, causing heavy loss and threat to a portion of social members life and property. Social rescue, as a responsibility of the government, is a longterm rescue system, aiming to rescue certain social groups. As the governments responsibility to provide longterm rescue to some social groups, social rescue is part of the social security system, ensuring the lowest living standard for those who suffer from disasters and have lost working ability and for the lowincome citizens. The involvement of social work in social rescue is a new task for social management. This article starts from urban community social work practice and analyzes and explores ways for social work to get involved in urban community social rescue.

Key words: social rescue, project purchase, social work