Company Law of the People's Republic of China

    Updated : 2016-04-14

(Adopted at the Fifth Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People’s Congress and promulgated by Order No. 16 of President of the People’s Republic of China on December 29, 1993, amended for the first time at the 13th Meeting of the Ninth National People’s Congress on December 25, 1999 in accordance with the Decision on Amending the Company Law of the People's Republic of China, and amended for the second time at the 11th Meeting of the Tenth National People’s Congress on August 28, 2004 in accordance with the Decision on Amending the Company Law of the People's Republic of China)

Contents

Chapter I General Provisions

Chapter II Incorporation and Organizational Structure of Limited Liability Companies

Section 1 Incorporation

Section 2 Organizational Structure

Section 3 Wholly State-owned Companies

Chapter III Incorporation and Organizational Structure of Joint Stock Limited Companies

Section 1 Incorporation

Section 2 Shareholders’ General Meetings

Section 3 Board of Directors, and the Manager

Section 4 Supervisory Board

Chapter IV Issue and Transfer of Shares of Joint Stock Limited Companies

Section 1 Issue of Shares

Section 2 Transfer of Shares

Section 3 Listed Companies

Chapter V Company Bonds

Chapter VI Financial Affairs and Accounting of Companies

Chapter VII Merger and Division of Companies

Chapter VIII Bankruptcy, Dissolution and Liquidation of Companies

Chapter IX Branches of Foreign Companies

Chapter X Legal Responsibility

Chapter XI Supplementary Provisions