Self-employed people are defined as: non-independent legal entities, belonging to individual organizations. A license is a simple business license.
There is no essential difference between companies and self-employed individuals as the main body of transactions for foreign operations; But it is different in the operation project. Companies can generally operate in multiple projects, and individual households are relatively single. As a legal subject, there are obvious differences between companies and self-employed individuals. Companies are generally legal persons, and self-employed individuals must be non-legal persons.
In more detail,
Individual industrial and commercial households refer 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.
An enterprise legal person is a kind of legal person, which refers to an enterprise organization that can enjoy civil rights and undertake civil obligations in its own name. The legal representative of an enterprise refers to the person in charge who exercises civil rights and performs civil obligations on behalf of an enterprise as a legal person according to law. ?
The General Principles of the Civil Law stipulates that enterprises owned by the whole people and collectively owned enterprises have the amount of funds in line with the provisions of the state, articles of association, organizations and places, can independently bear civil liabilities, and have been approved and registered by the competent authorities to obtain legal person status. Chinese-foreign equity joint ventures, Chinese-foreign contractual joint ventures and foreign-funded enterprises established in People's Republic of China (PRC) have legal personality, and have been approved and registered by the administrative department for industry and commerce according to law, and obtained the legal personality of China. ?
The Law on Industrial Enterprises Owned by the Whole People stipulates that the factory director (manager) of the enterprise is the legal representative of the enterprise. The Company Law stipulates that the chairman of the company is the legal representative of the company. ?
According to the laws of our country, an enterprise as a legal person shall bear civil liability for the business activities of its legal representative and other staff members, and the legal representative of the enterprise shall conduct litigation activities on behalf of the enterprise as a legal person.