| Transportation by water has a great importance to the economy of one country, as a result, the supervision and management to the ships as transportation tools are also abnormally important. The ships register is a premise to the valid management. In this essay, basic concept, types of the ships register and the effect of register as the way to show real right publicly are introduced; And it makes a thorough research of register systems of our country, sets forth the nature of ships register, fully introduces the reformation process of ships register legislation in China, particularly the modification of 'the regulation of ships register in China'; This paper puts forward shortages of register system and some aspects which still need reformation in the future as well, and does research about some problems in ships register practices. |