Can self-employed people pay social security?

Legal analysis: self-employed individuals can pay social security. Self-employed is a common name for individual industrial and commercial households in urban and rural areas, and is a self-reliant worker who does not exploit others within the scope permitted by law. Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic old-age insurance in the employer and other flexible employees can participate in the basic old-age insurance, and individuals pay the basic old-age insurance premium. Registration of social insurance payment units (applicable to units and self-employed households). Registration scope of payment units: units (administrative institutions, enterprises and social organizations) and individual industrial and commercial households that should pay social insurance premiums in accordance with relevant laws, regulations and rules. Self-employed people are individual industrial and commercial households. China's Social Insurance Law stipulates that individual industrial and commercial households without employees can participate in basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance, and individuals pay basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance premiums. It should be noted that the social insurance that individual industrial and commercial households participate in is only basic old-age insurance and basic medical insurance.

Legal basis: Article 10 of the Social Insurance Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), employees shall participate in the basic old-age insurance, and the employer and employees shall jointly pay the basic old-age insurance premium. Individual industrial and commercial households without employees, part-time employees who have not participated in the basic old-age insurance in the employer and other flexible employees can participate in the basic old-age insurance, and individuals pay the basic old-age insurance premium.