Study Of The Board Secretary System

The company secretary system was born in England, which is the unique system of common law system countries. It still have strong vitality at common law system countries after the development of more than one century. And was gradually transplanted by civil law countries for its special function and value for improve and prefect corporation governance structure.The starting of introduction of the board secretary system in our country should be track back to the process of oversea listing of domestic company. The original intention of the introduction is to meet the legal requirement for financing of domestic company in the international capital market and strength the internal constraint of the company. The company law which is revised in2005clearly defined company secretary’s legal status of the senior management of the company. That regulation has great significance for it confirmed the statutory nature of company secretary in our country. But the relevant regulations of company secretary in company law are too general, and lack the protection of the power and right of company secretary. In reality, lack of related system cause company secretary have many difficulties to discharge their duly, have high practicing risk and fail to realize its value. That requires us to make more effort on the further research on improving and perfecting the relevant regulations of company secretary.The thesis starts from the basic theory of company secretary. First, puts forward the concept definition of the company secretary, also analysis its function and legal value. Besides, find out some systems which are advanced and have the value of application base on the analysis and comparison of the legal regulation of the main foreign countries and regions. Then analyze the historical evolution and current status of legislation of company secretary in our country, also put forward the status and reasons of existing problems of the board secretary system in our country. Last, put forward and illustrate the suggestion of the thesis on the perfection of company secretary in our country. Included the countermeasures to perfect the board secretary system itself and the related system.