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Is there a difference between a chairman and a legal person?
The differences are as follows:

1 has different meanings.

A legal person generally refers to an organization that has the capacity for civil rights and civil conduct, enjoys civil rights and undertakes civil obligations independently according to law.

The chairman refers to the top leader of the company, who is in charge of the board of directors. The chairman is also one of the directors, elected by the board of directors, and leads the company's direction and strategy on behalf of the board of directors.

2. Different responsibilities

A legal person is a specific organization, such as an enterprise or a mass organization, rather than a position or an individual.

The chairman is the top manager of the company or institution, elected by the board of directors, and the highest representative of the company's interests, leading the board of directors.

3. Different rights

Generally, corporate enterprises that set up a board of directors in their articles of association will have the post of chairman. Usually, the shareholders' meeting elects or recommends directors through the shareholders' meeting to form the board of directors. The board of directors is an institution that exercises power on behalf of the shareholders' meeting. The shareholders' meeting is similar to the National People's Congress, and the board of directors is similar to the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC). When the shareholders' meeting is adjourned, the board of directors will represent the rights of shareholders in the board of directors.

Different legal persons have formed different legal person theories, and the theory of legal person system has become the theoretical basis for countries all over the world to establish and improve the legal person system, standardize the economic order and the whole social order.

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