The primary role of the board of directors is the st rategic guidance of the company and the monitoring of the management. But as a deliberative organ, it has deficiencies. The establishment of board committees helps to overcome it s deficiency and enable the independent directors to act more independently. The current modes of laws regulating committees are different in the US, Japan and China, among which the mode in the US in preferable. The typical committees are nominating committee, compensation committee and audit committee, which perform their respective important functions. The board committee should be provided in the China's Company Code. |