Legal basis: Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).
The forms of suretyship include general suretyship and joint liability suretyship. If the parties have not agreed on the way of guarantee or the agreement is unclear in the guarantee contract, they shall bear the guarantee liability according to the general guarantee.
Article 688 Where the parties stipulate in the suretyship contract that the surety and the debtor shall be jointly and severally liable for the debts, it is a suretyship of joint liability. When the debtor of joint and several liability guarantee fails to perform the due debt or the circumstances agreed by the parties occur, the creditor may require the debtor to perform the debt, or may require the guarantor to assume the guarantee liability within the scope of its guarantee.