According to the current "Trademark Law of the People's Republic of China", the subjects of trademark rights include the following five types of persons:

(1) Enterprises and institutions: Enterprises must be Industrial and commercial enterprises registered in accordance with the law and capable of independently assuming civil liability; public institutions must have legal person qualifications;

(2) Social groups: those that provide services or that have been approved to produce, manufacture, process, select, or distribute goods Social groups that need to use trademarks;

(3) Individual industrial and commercial individuals who have obtained industrial and commercial registration in accordance with the law and can independently bear civil liability;

(4) Individual partnerships:

(5) Foreigners or foreign enterprises (if they apply for trademark registration in China, they shall handle it in accordance with the agreement signed by their country and China or the international treaty that China has jointly participated in or in accordance with the principle of reciprocity).

To sum up, according to the current trademark laws, foreign (including those outside the mainland) natural persons can apply for trademark registration in China, but Chinese natural persons are currently not allowed to apply for trademark registration, nor can they be registered. License to use registered trademarks of others.