1. Individual industrial and commercial households are natural persons or families engaged in industrial and commercial operations. Natural persons who engage in industrial and commercial operations by individuals or families are all individual industrial and commercial households. According to the relevant policies of the law, those who can apply for individual industrial and commercial households are mainly unemployed young people in cities and towns, social idlers and rural villagers. In addition, cadres of state organs and employees of enterprises and institutions cannot apply to engage in individual industrial and commercial operations.
2. Natural persons engaged in individual industrial and commercial operations must be approved and registered according to law. The registration authority of individual industrial and commercial households is the administrative department for industry and commerce at or above the county level. Individual industrial and commercial households can only start business after being approved and registered and obtaining a business license. When individual industrial and commercial households change jobs, merge, change registered items or go out of business, they should also go through the registration procedures.
3. Individual industrial and commercial households can only engage in industries where laws and policies allow individual businesses.