law Mainland China Official translation

Sole Proprietorship Enterprise Law of the People's Republic of China

中华人民共和国个人独资企业法

Defines the sole proprietorship as a business entity funded by one natural person, with property personally owned by the investor and debts backed by unlimited personal liability.

Use It For

Use this to separate companies from individual-investor business vehicles and to test whether a fact pattern actually involves a corporate legal person.

Teaching Notes

Students often assume every registered business has separate personality. This statute is a clean way to correct that assumption.