农村社区老年人协会是农村社区中自我管理、自我组织、自我服务和自我教育的民间组织。老年人协会具有再造老年人非物质福利的内部效应和地方性知识重建的外部效应。随着中国老龄社会的到来，老年人协会要发挥维护老年人福利和村庄治理的双重功能。福建晋江Q社区老年人协会经过近三十年的发展，如今已成为该社区新农村建设中一支不可或缺的民间力量。

Rural community elderly association is self-management, self-organization, self-service and selfeducation organizations in the rural communities. The elderly association has the internal effect of reconstructing the eldly intangible benefits and external effect of local knowledge reconstruction. With the arrival of aging society in China, elderly association need to play a double function both in the maintenance of elderly welfare and the village governance. After nearly 30 years of development, Fujian Jinjiang Q Community elderly association has now become a non-governmental force which is indispensable to the construction of new countryside community.