Is it illegal to recruit minors?

It is illegal to recruit minors under the age of 16.

Article 2 of the "Regulations on the Prohibition of the Use of Child Labor" stipulates that no state agency, social group, enterprise or institution, private non-enterprise unit or individual industrial and commercial household (hereinafter collectively referred to as the employer) shall recruit anyone under the age of 16. Minors (recruiting minors under the age of 16, hereinafter collectively referred to as child labor).

It is prohibited for any unit or individual to introduce employment to minors under the age of 16.

Minors under the age of 16 are prohibited from opening businesses and engaging in self-employed activities.

Article 3, paragraph 1, stipulates that parents or other guardians of minors under the age of 16 shall protect their physical and mental health, protect their right to receive compulsory education, and shall not allow them to be illegally recruited by employers. .