According to the General Principles of Civil Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
Article 99 Citizens have the right to name, and have the right to decide, use and change their names according to regulations. Interference, misappropriation and counterfeiting are prohibited.
Legal persons, individual industrial and commercial households and individual partnerships enjoy the right to name. Enterprise legal persons, individual industrial and commercial households and individual partnerships have the right to use and transfer their names according to law.
Extended data
For the following household registration matters, as long as they meet the policy requirements and the supporting materials are complete, the police of the public security police station shall handle them on the spot:
1, birth registration;
2. Death registration;
3. Changes and corrections of household registration items (except name, nationality and date of birth);
4. Individual households and merged households;
5, the city's household registration migration (due to take refuge in immediate family members and household registration, purchase, housing change and other reasons. );
6, citizens go abroad (border) to cancel their accounts and return to China (border) to restore their accounts;
7. Citizens eligible for enlistment cancel their accounts and demobilized soldiers return to their original places;
8, was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, reeducation through labor personnel to cancel the account and released from prison, released from reeducation through labor personnel to return to their original places;
9. Admission of college students, transfer of college students, transfer of dropout accounts, and graduation of college students;
10, recruitment of civil servants, recruitment of employees and transfer of civil servants and employees, etc. , approved by the organization, personnel, labor and other departments, moved to the city and county public security organs for approval before the household registration transfer;
1 1. Other household registration items that can be handled on the spot according to regulations.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-hukou handling
References:
National People's Congress-General Principles of People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Law