The Approach to Governing Collective-assets-based Shares in Rural Collective Economic Organizations
Before and after the reform of the system on rural collective property rights was basically completed in 2021,a large number of rural collective economic organizations with collective-assets-based shares as the basis for profits distribution and named as share-based economic cooperatives were registered and established.However,in 2024,the Law of China on Rural Collective Economic Organizations creatively takes the share of right to profits from operational property as the basis for the distribution of collective profits,and stipulates that registered rural collective economic organizations and their names continue to be valid within the period of validity of the registration certificates,thus raising the issue of the future space for the existence and the governing approach of collective-asset-based shares.After the expiry of the validity period of the registration certificate,regarding the approach to governing assets-based shares in rural collective economic organizations,it is necessary to preferably choose the substitution-oriented approach of replacing asset-based shares with shares of right to profits and cautiously choose the external-share-based approach of incorporating assets-share in enterprises externally invested by rural collective economic organizations,with the internal-share based approach of renewing the validity of registration certificates to partially validate the rules on asset-based shares as the alternative one;for the external-share-based approach,it is preferable to change the membership-based shares into collective shares in enterprises invested by rural collective economic organizations to directly incorporating membership-based into enterprises invested by rural collective economic organizations.For those preferable approaches,it is necessary to improve institutional framework on quantification of shares,empowerment and management of right to profits,etc.;for those alternative approaches,it is necessary to revise institutional norms on non-changeability,inheritance-orientated rights and external investment of asset-based shares,etc..Prior to the expiry of the validity period of the registration certificates,early changes in the current internal-share-based approach to governing the asset-based shares should be allowed.
Rural Collective Economic OrganizationsCollective-assets-based SharesShare-based Economic CooperativesCollective OwnershipShares of Right to ProfitsLaw on Rural Collective Economic Organizations