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The boundary and combination of e-signature, electronic seals, paper contracts and physical seal control.
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The boundary and combination of e-signature, electronic seals, paper contracts and physical seal control.
Updated: 2026-10-27
Many companies photograph their official seal and print it on paper contracts, treating this image seal as a simple substitute for a legal electronic seal. The article explains why such seals fall far short of the legal standard, can leave contracts as invalid evidence in disputes, and what the 2025 Measures for the Administration of Electronic Seals require.
Read Chinese original →Guangdong Yuecai Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Guangdong Yuecai Investment Holdings and one of China's first provincial asset management companies qualified to acquire and dispose of non-performing financial assets in bulk, chose Chengzhang's AI self-service seal robot after comparing products on the market. The company valued its full-text AI comparison for large asset contracts.
Read Chinese original →Seals symbolize corporate authority, and a single lapse in managing them can expose a company to serious risk. Forged seals on fake contracts, unauthorized stamping by employees, and chaotic seal-use processes that make responsibility hard to trace are hidden bombs that can cost companies money and reputation.
Read Chinese original →The Supreme People's Court's typical criminal cases on promoting private economic development included the contract fraud case in which Liao Liangmao, former controller of Guangdong Longxin Technology, used forged seals and documents to defraud Nanjing Kangni Mechanical and Electrical in a 3.4 billion yuan cross-industry restructuring. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Read Chinese original →In a Zhuhai case, two companies agreed to place one company's seals in a safe at the other's premises, with the key or code held by both; when cooperation broke down, the court upheld the joint-custody arrangement as valid. The case illustrates the legal effect of contractual custody arrangements and the need for written terms, tiered controls, and traceability.
Read Chinese original →A legal director at a Shenzhen financial institution is stuck on yet another contract dispute caused by unauthorized seal use, illustrating how seal management has become a digital island in corporate transformation. Chengzhang's AI robot compares documents page by page, positions seals at sub-millimeter precision, and generates tamper-proof digital archives, with private deployment and full domestic IT adaptation.
Read Chinese original →The article lists common seal-management risks, including stamping blank contracts, relationship-based stamping, mixing or misusing seals, and seals stolen by departed employees, along with their legal consequences. It then sets out a five-step compliant process covering application, approval, supervised stamping, registration and archiving, and special cases.
Read Chinese original →In January, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the People's Bank of China announced new measures to deepen Hong Kong–mainland financial market connectivity and strengthen Hong Kong's role as an offshore renminbi hub. Chengzhang's AI seal robot supports comparison of documents in traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, English, Portuguese, and other languages, helping cross-border contracts between mainland and Hong Kong entities.
Read Chinese original →TCL Group began adopting Chengzhang AI self-service seal robots in 2021, gradually retiring a 12-person contract-document shared center. Self-service sealing, AI comparison and full-process monitoring moved sealing to the business lobby.
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