Can civil servants do business?

Civil servants themselves are not allowed to do business. In addition to normal wages and benefits, the legitimate income of civil servants also includes stock trading, national debt, manuscript fees, patent fees and so on. The premise of the above income is: you can't take advantage of your position, you can't trade internally, and you can't take up working hours. Spouses and immediate family members of civil servants can do business, but I can't. Civil servants may not invest in unlisted joint stock limited companies or limited liability companies. Registered individual industrial and commercial households, sole proprietorship enterprises, partnerships, etc. And register a company or invest in shares outside the country (territory).

People's Republic of China (PRC) civil servant law

Article 59

Civil servants shall abide by the law and discipline, and shall not commit any of the following acts:

(1) Spreading remarks that undermine the authority of the Constitution and the reputation of the Party and the State, and organizing or participating in activities such as assembly, procession and demonstration aimed at opposing the Constitution and the leadership of the Party and the State;

(2) Organizing or participating in an illegal organization, organizing or participating in a strike;

(three) provoke and undermine ethnic relations, participate in ethnic separatist activities or organize and use religious activities to undermine national unity and social stability;

(four) do not assume responsibility, omission, dereliction of duty, delay the work;

(5) refusing to carry out the decisions and orders made by superiors according to law;

(6) Suppressing or retaliating against criticisms, complaints and exposures;

(seven) practicing fraud, misleading and deceiving leaders and the public;

(eight) corruption, taking advantage of his position to seek personal gain for himself or others;

(nine) in violation of financial discipline, wasting state assets;

(ten) abuse of power, infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons or other organizations;

(eleven) revealing state secrets or work secrets;

(twelve) damage the honor and interests of the state in foreign exchanges;

(thirteen) to participate in or support pornography, drug abuse, gambling, superstition and other activities;

(fourteen) in violation of professional ethics, social morality and family virtues;

(fifteen) in violation of the relevant provisions to participate in the prohibition of network communication or network activities;

(sixteen) to engage in or participate in profit-making activities in violation of relevant regulations, and to work part-time in enterprises or other profit-making organizations;

(seventeen) absenteeism or going out on business, vacation expires without justifiable reasons;

(eighteen) other illegal acts.