Does a joint stock limited company need industrial and commercial registration to change its shareholders?

Legal analysis: No need. The establishment registration and articles of association of a joint-stock company only need to record the identity of the promoters. Because the carrier of shares in joint-stock companies is stocks.

Legal basis: Article 54 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC). Natural persons engaged in industrial and commercial operations are registered as individual industrial and commercial households according to law. Individual industrial and commercial households can have a font size.