State-owned enterprises, collective enterprises, joint ventures and joint-stock cooperative enterprises
Private enterprise self-employed partnership enterprise limited liability company
incorporated company
Limited liability company: shareholders are liable to the company to the extent of their subscribed capital contribution;
Limited by Share Ltd: Shareholders are liable to the company to the extent of the shares subscribed by them.
Wholly state-owned company: refers to a limited liability company established by a state-authorized investment institution or a state-authorized department.
A sole proprietorship enterprise refers to an enterprise legal person established within the territory of China according to this Law, which 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.
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.
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.
Foreign-invested enterprises: 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.
Private enterprise: refers to a profit-making economic organization established or controlled by natural persons and based on wage labor.
In addition, there are previously registered enterprises, and now enterprises of this nature cannot be registered:
Enterprises owned by the whole people: refers to enterprises whose means of production are owned by the whole people, and whose ownership is exercised by the state as the representative, engaged in commodity production and business activities, operating independently, taking responsibility for their own profits and losses, accounting independently and making profits.
Collective ownership 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 accumulating certain public funds.