2. Different exercise of rights: supervisors are responsible for supervision; Directors make decisions and are responsible for the internal and external affairs of the company.
3. Different purposes: Due to the scattered shareholders of the company, the professional knowledge and ability are very different. The purpose of establishing supervisors is to prevent the board of directors and managers from abusing their powers and harming the interests of the company and shareholders. ?
Directors manage the company's affairs internally and conduct economic activities on behalf of the company externally.
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1, Article 52 of the Company Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates:
A limited liability company shall have a board of supervisors with no less than three members. A limited liability company with fewer shareholders or smaller scale may have one or two supervisors instead of a board of supervisors.
The board of supervisors shall include an appropriate proportion of shareholders' representatives and employees' representatives, of which the proportion of employees' representatives shall not be less than one third, and the specific proportion shall be stipulated in the articles of association. The employee representatives in the board of supervisors are elected by the employees of the company through employee congresses, employee congresses or other forms of democratic elections.
The board of supervisors shall have a chairman, who shall be elected by more than half of all supervisors. The chairman of the board of supervisors shall convene and preside over the meeting of the board of supervisors; If the chairman of the board of supervisors is unable to perform his duties or fails to perform his duties, more than half of the supervisors shall jointly nominate a supervisor to convene and preside over the meeting of the board of supervisors.
Directors and senior managers shall not concurrently serve as supervisors.
2. The Company Law stipulates that the number of directors of a limited liability company is 3 ~ 13. The board of directors of a joint stock limited company is 5 ~ 19. Members of the board of directors may include company employee representatives. The employee representatives in the board of directors are elected by the employees of the company through employee congresses, employee congresses or other forms of democratic elections. Non-employee representative directors shall be elected or replaced by the shareholders' (general) meeting, and the term of office shall be stipulated in the company's articles of association, but each term shall not exceed 3 years. The term of office of directors shall be counted from the date when the resolution of the shareholders' (general) meeting is passed until the term of office of the current board of directors expires.
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