The rights of shareholders are as follows:
1. Attend or entrust an agent to attend the shareholders' meeting to exercise voting rights.
2. The right to vote and to be elected.
3. The right to transfer capital contribution or shares according to law. Shareholders of a limited liability company transfer their capital contributions to people other than shareholders of the company, and the shareholders of the company have the priority to be transferred. Limited by Share Ltd does not have this restriction.
4. Shareholders' right to know. Shareholders' right to know is the right to let shareholders know about major issues of the company.
5. Earnings distribution right and the company's remaining property distribution right.
Shareholders of a limited liability company may not distribute profits according to the proportion of capital contribution, and may agree on the proportion of profit distribution by themselves. However, a joint stock limited company can only distribute its income in proportion to its shares.
Only when the company is dissolved, the shareholders have the right to distribute the remaining property after paying off all debts with all the company's property in proportion to their capital contribution.
6. The preemptive right of the company's newly-increased capital.
When the company increases capital or issues new shares, the existing shareholders have the priority to subscribe for the newly-increased capital or new shares of the company according to the paid-in capital or shareholding ratio, and non-shareholders do not have this priority.
7. The right to propose to convene an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders and to convene and preside over the general meeting of shareholders under certain circumstances.
Legal objectivity:
Company Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 97
Shareholders have the right to consult the Articles of Association, the register of shareholders, corporate bond stubs, minutes of shareholders' meetings, resolutions of board meetings, resolutions of board meetings and financial and accounting reports, and make suggestions or queries on the company's operation.
Company Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 103
Shareholders attending the shareholders' meeting shall have one vote for each share they hold. However, the shares of the company held by the company have no voting rights. The resolution of the shareholders' meeting must be passed by more than half of the voting rights held by the shareholders present at the meeting. However, the resolutions of the shareholders' meeting to amend the Articles of Association, increase or decrease the registered capital, and the resolutions of the company's merger, division, dissolution or change of corporate form must be adopted by more than two thirds of the voting rights held by the shareholders present at the meeting.
Company Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 152
Where a director or senior manager violates laws, administrative regulations or the provisions of the company's articles of association and damages the interests of shareholders, shareholders may bring a lawsuit to the people's court.