Individuals can buy in stock exchanges or banks.

Individual investors can realize self-service trading of exchange bonds through stock accounts of securities companies. Generally speaking, tradable bonds include government bonds, local government bonds, corporate bonds, corporate bonds and convertible bonds.

In general classification, corporate bonds and bonds issued by enterprises can directly become corporate bonds. Corporate bonds are securities issued by companies in accordance with legal procedures and agreed to repay the principal and interest within a certain period of time. Generally refers to bonds issued by enterprises. Some enterprises that issue bonds in China are not joint-stock companies, so these bonds are generally called corporate bonds.

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(1) Corporate bonds are divided into short-term corporate bonds, medium-term corporate bonds and long-term corporate bonds according to the term. According to the term classification of corporate bonds in China, the term of short-term corporate bonds is within 1 year, the term of medium-term corporate bonds is within 1 year and less than 5 years, and the term of long-term corporate bonds is more than 5 years.

(2) According to whether it is registered or not, corporate bonds can be divided into registered bonds and registered bonds. If the name of the bondholder is registered on the corporate bond, the investor must sign the bond with the seal or other valid identification when receiving the interest, and register with the issuing company at the same time, which is called registered bonds, and vice versa.

(3) According to whether the bonds are secured or not, corporate bonds can be divided into credit bonds and secured bonds. Credit bonds refer to unsecured bonds issued only with the credit of fundraisers. Credit bonds are only applicable to bond issuers with high credit ratings. Guaranteed bonds refer to bonds issued by means of mortgage, pledge and guarantee.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-corporate bonds