The term "accelerated expiry for shareholder's capital contribution" is not adequate to cover the whole phenomenon that a company's creditors require shareholders to pay in the capital contributions for which they have subscribed, irrespective of the fact that the deadlines have not expired for such capital contributions. The shareholders' obligation to contribute capital to the company is both a contractual obligation and a legal obligation. From the perspective of contractual obligations, shareholders should deliver their assets as capital contributions to the company in according to the articles of association, and at the same time have a defense against the company that period for the capital contribution has not yet expired. From the perspective of legal obligations, shareholders should be liable to the company to the extent of their respective capital contributions. The capital contributions subscribed for by the shareholders constitute the company's property in the form of value, rather than in the form of the shareholders' capital contribution, for which the company's creditors can apply for enforcement. In the case of non-bankruptcy, the essence of the so-called accelerated expiry for shareholders' capital contributions is not that the shareholders lose the benefit of period for the capital contributions and perform the contractual obligation to pay in the capital contributions, but that the shareholders should assume the legal obligation to contribute the capital contributions they have subscribed for to the company, which is the substance of the limited liability of shareholders to the company. The supplementary liability of shareholders to the company's creditors as stipulated in judicial interpretation is essentially the legal responsibility of shareholders to the company to the extent of their respective capital contributions. The rules on the shareholders' obligations of capital contributions can be further improved by providing the liability for delays in compensation for shareholders' violation of obligations on their capital contributions and establishing the conditions of the application of Article 3 of the Company Law based on the inability of the company's assets to pay off all expired debts. |