Not necessarily. The so-called "criminal record" is not a standard legal term, but its general meaning is the record of individual criminal facts by judicial or administrative departments. Theoretically, people with criminal records enjoy the same rights as other citizens, but this is only theoretical. In fact, people with criminal records are restricted in applying for civil servants, institutions, joining the army and going abroad.

He has a criminal record and cannot do the following work: 1. Judicial system: According to the law, a person with a criminal record cannot serve as a judge, prosecutor, juror, people's clerk, supervisor, police, lawyer, notary and judicial expert. Civil servant system: including party and government organs, people's congress organs, CPPCC organs, democratic party organizations, social organizations, reference civil servant series management units and joining the army; 3. Insurance and securities occupations: futures practitioners, risk managers of securities companies, actuaries, insurance salesmen, securities practitioners, auctioneers, and securities and futures investment consulting practitioners; 4. Institutions: teachers, doctors, accountants, certified public accountants and journalists; 5. Company executives: directors, managers and other senior managers of the company and bankruptcy administrators of the enterprise; Some people say that as long as they are not state-owned enterprises and institutions, ordinary private enterprises should be unrestricted. 6. Other occupations: tour guide, production, sales, procurement, transportation, blasting personnel, registered construction engineer, registered safety engineer and registered surveyor of civil safety products.

If you have a criminal record, this will not affect the three generations, but it will affect the political review of your immediate children in the future and affect their participation in civil service examinations, conscription, banks, state-owned enterprises, institutions, military schools and police academies. It should be noted that if you apply for special positions, such as police, prisons and other related positions, you need to prove that your close relatives have no criminal record within three generations.

Legal basis: Article 275 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), if a person was under the age of 18 at the time of committing a crime and was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, the relevant criminal records shall be sealed.

If the criminal record is sealed, it shall not be provided to any unit or individual, except for the need of judicial organs to handle cases or the relevant units to make inquiries in accordance with state regulations. Units that inquire according to law shall keep the sealed criminal records confidential.