Signing, as the name implies, is to sign your name on a contract or agreement. The name here usually refers to the legal name on the ID card.
Signature is the parallel relationship between signature and seal, and the agreement can only take effect if there are both signatures and seals. Both parties express clearly and truly the meaning of this agreement, which shall be deemed as valid. Of course, in this kind of cases, the party who claims that the agreement is invalid often just signs or seals, but in the case that one party performs the contract and the other party accepts the performance of the contract, whether it is agreed to "sign, seal" or "sign and seal" can actually be done.
Legal basis: Article 490 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC). If the parties enter into a contract in the form of a contract, the contract shall be established when the parties sign, seal or press their fingerprints. Before signing, sealing or fingerprinting, one party has fulfilled its main obligations, and the contract is established when the other party accepts it.
A contract shall be concluded in written form as stipulated by laws, administrative regulations or agreed by the parties. If the parties do not do this in writing, but one party has fulfilled its main obligations and the other party accepts it, the contract is established.