1. Nature of joint venture: A joint venture generally refers to a Sino-foreign joint venture, which is an enterprise jointly funded and operated by China investors and foreign investors, sharing profits and losses and risks.
2. Foreign investors can be enterprises, other economic organizations or individuals. At present, the joint venture in China is limited to enterprises and other economic organizations, excluding individuals and individual enterprises. With the approval of the examination organ, the joint venture is a legal person in China, which is governed and protected by the laws of China.
3. Classification of enterprise nature: limited liability company: shareholders are liable to the company to the extent of their subscribed capital contribution.
4. Limited by Share Ltd: Shareholders are liable to the company to the extent of the shares subscribed by them.
5. Wholly State-owned company: refers to a limited liability company established solely by an investment institution authorized by the state or a department authorized by the state.
6. A sole proprietorship enterprise refers to an enterprise as a legal person established in China according to this Law. It is invested by a natural person, and its property belongs to the investor, who shall bear unlimited liability for the debts of the enterprise with his personal property.
7. Partnership refers to the general partnership and limited partnership established in China by natural persons, legal persons and other organizations in accordance with this Law.
8. Individual industrial and commercial households: refers to an economic form in which the means of production are privately owned, mainly individual labor, and the income from labor is dominated by individual workers themselves. Individual industrial and commercial households have three organizational forms: individual business, family business and individual partnership business. Because individual industrial and commercial households bear unlimited liability for debts, individual industrial and commercial households do not have legal personality.
9. Enterprises with foreign investment: Foreign enterprises and other economic organizations or individuals invest in China in various ways, and are established according to law and bear civil liabilities. Divided into: wholly foreign-owned enterprises, Chinese-foreign cooperative enterprises and Chinese-foreign joint ventures.
10. Private enterprise: refers to a profit-making economic organization established or controlled by a natural person and based on employment.
1 1. Enterprise owned by the whole people: refers to an enterprise whose means of production are owned by the whole people, and the state, as a representative, exercises ownership, engages in commodity production and business activities, operates independently, is responsible for its own profits and losses, conducts independent accounting and aims at making profits.
12. Collectively-owned enterprise: refers to an enterprise in which the means of production or property are collectively owned by the working people, and the working people work together, giving priority to distribution according to work, supplemented by appropriate dividends, and distributing certain currencies to each other.
13, enterprise types, China's company law, joint venture law, Sino-foreign joint venture law, Sino-foreign joint venture law, foreign-funded enterprise law, sole proprietorship enterprise law and other relevant laws and regulations have relevant provisions.
The above is an introduction to the nature of the joint venture.