第二章 公民（自然人） 第四节 个体工商户、农村承包经营户 

Section 4 Individual Businesses and Leaseholding Farm Households 

第二十六条 公民在法律允许的范围内，依法经核准登记，从事工商业经营的，为个体工商户。个体工商户可以起字号。 

Article 26 "Individual businesses" refers to business run by individual citizens who have been lawfully¹ registered and approved to engage in industrial or commercial operation within the sphere permitted by law. An individual business may adopt a shop name. 

第二十七条 农村集体经济组织的成员，在法律允许的范围内，按照承包合同规定从事商品经营的，为农村承包经营户。 

Article 27 "Leaseholding farm households" refers to members of a rural collective economic organization who engage in commodity production under a contract and within the spheres permitted by law. 

第二十八条 个体工商户、农村承包经营户的合法权益，受法律保护。 

Article 28 The legitimate² rights and interests of individual businesses and leaseholding farm households shall be protected by law. 

第二十九条 个体工商户、农村承包经营户的债务，个人经营的，以个人财产承担；家庭经营的，以家庭财产承担。 

Article 29 The debts of an individual business or a leaseholding farm household shall be secured with the individual's property if the business is operated by an individual and with the family's property if the business is operated by a family.