The Labor Contract Law does not specify, but the Labor Law has restrictions. According to the labor law, the minimum age limit of legal working age for hiring employees is 16 years old.

China's labor law on the age of employment is:

Article 15: Employers are prohibited from recruiting minors under the age of 16.

Units of arts and culture, sports and special crafts that employ minors under the age of sixteen must fulfill the approval procedures in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and safeguard their right to receive compulsory education.

Article 58: The State shall implement special labor protection for female workers and underage workers. Underage workers are those who have reached the age of sixteen and have not yet reached the age of eighteen.

Article 64: Underage workers shall not be assigned to work in underground mines, poisonous and harmful work, work of the fourth level of physical strength as prescribed by the State, or other work that is forbidden to be performed.

Article 65: Employers shall conduct regular health examinations for underage workers.

The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors stipulates:

Article 38: No organization or individual may recruit minors under the age of sixteen, except as otherwise provided by the State.

Article 49: If an enterprise or organization, or an individual industrial or commercial enterprise, illegally recruits a minor under the age of sixteen, it shall be ordered by the labor department to make corrections, and shall be fined; if the circumstances are serious, the business license shall be revoked by the administrative department for industry and commerce.

The Chinese people's **** and the general principles of the Civil Law of the State provides:

Article 11: citizens over eighteen years of age are adults, with full capacity for civil behavior, can independently carry out civil activities, is a person with full capacity for civil behavior.

Citizens over the age of sixteen and under the age of eighteen who rely on their own labor income as their main source of livelihood are considered to be persons with full capacity for civil conduct.

Extended information:

According to the labor law, the labor age is 16 years old, no more than 60 for men and no more than 50 for women (no more than 55 for managerial positions).

In order to protect the physical and mental health of minors, the State Council Decree No. 364 published the "Prohibition of Child Labor Regulations", which prohibits employers from recruiting minors under the age of 16.

According to the regulations, employers, including state organs, social organizations, enterprises and institutions, private non-enterprise units, and individual industrial and commercial households, are prohibited from recruiting minors under the age of 16, also known as child labor; at the same time, it is prohibited for any unit or individual to introduce employment for minors under the age of 16, and it is prohibited for minors under the age of 16 to start and engage in self-employed business activities. Parents or other guardians of minors under the age of 16 are obliged to ensure that they are not illegally recruited by employers.

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