Civil Code of the People's Republic of China Promulga on date 2020-05-28 E ec ve region Promulgat or Na onal People's Congress Document Order of the President of the number People's Republic of China No. 45 E ec vene ss E ec ve E ec ve date Taxonomy Industry category NATIONAL 2021-01-01 General ( Civil Law->General ) General Civil Code of the People's Republic of China Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 45 May 28, 2020 The Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, adopted at the Third Session of the 13th Na onal People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on May 28, 2020, is hereby promulgated and shall come into force from January 1, 2021. Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China Civil Code of the People's Republic of China (Adopted at the third session of the 13th Na onal People's Congress on May 28, 2020) Contents Book One General Part Chapter I General Provisions Chapter II Natural Persons Sec on 1 Capacity for Enjoying Civil-law Rights and Capacity for Performing Civil Juris c Acts Sec on 2 Guardianship Sec on 3 Declara on of A Missing Person and Declara on of Death Sec on 4 Individual-Run Industrial and Commercial Households and Rural-land Contractual Management Households Chapter III Legal Persons Sec on 1 General Rules Sec on 2 For-pro t Legal Persons Sec on 3 Non-pro t Legal Persons Sec on 4 Special Legal Persons Chapter IV Unincorporated Organiza ons Chapter V Civil-law Rights ti ti ti ti ti fi ti fi t ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ff ff ff ff 1