In the name of the company is called a legal shareholder. The citizens are called natural person shareholders.

Shareholding is also known as stock ownership or employee shareholding, which means that employees become shareholders of the business they serve. There is a difference between the broad and narrow definitions of employee shareholding. The narrow sense of the employee shares refers to the company to enable employees to obtain the company's shares and provide a variety of facilitation system; the broad sense of the employee shares for employees to hold the company's shares of the company based on incentives, good offices, assistance and other methods to do to promote the company's policy or policy of the general term. If the company, just the transfer of equity. If it is a partnership, but also for you to join the partnership before the debt of unlimited joint and several liability.

Legal basis

"Chinese people's **** and state company law" article 20 the company shareholders need to bear the following responsibilities: 1, the company shareholders should comply with laws, administrative regulations and the articles of association of the company, according to the law to exercise the rights of the shareholders, shall not abuse the rights of shareholders to the detriment of the company or the interests of the other shareholders; shall not abuse the company's legal person independent status and the limited liability of shareholders to the detriment of the company's creditors 100 The interests of the company's shareholders. 2, the company shareholders abuse the rights of shareholders to the company or other shareholders to cause losses, shall be liable in accordance with the law. 3, the shareholders of the company abused the independent status of the company's legal person and shareholders limited liability, evasion of debt, serious damage to the interests of the company's creditors, the company's debt shall be held jointly and severally liable.