Can shareholders be company supervisors?

Of course. Article 52 of China's Company Law clearly stipulates that there should be an appropriate proportion of shareholder representatives and employee representatives in the board of supervisors. The term "must" here means that the supervisor must be composed of shareholder representatives and employee representatives (non-shareholders).

1. The supervisor is a member of the company's permanent supervisory body, also known as the "supervisor", and is responsible for supervising the company's financial situation, the performance of duties by the company's senior management, and other supervisory duties stipulated in the company's articles of association.

2. In order to prevent the board of directors and the manager from abusing their powers and harming the interests of the company and shareholders, the supervisors need to choose such a special supervision institution at the shareholders' meeting to exercise the supervision function on behalf of the shareholders' meeting. In China, the supervisory organization composed of supervisors is called the board of supervisors, which is the necessary statutory supervisory organization of the company.

3. Because the shareholders of the company are scattered, and their professional knowledge and ability are very different, in order to prevent the board of directors and managers from abusing their powers and harming the interests of the company and shareholders, it is necessary to elect this special supervision institution at the shareholders' meeting to exercise the supervision function on behalf of the shareholders' meeting.