Domicile and habitual residence, two of the most important constituents of Chinese Residence sys-tem, have some defects in theory and practice. First, The General Principles of Civil Law defines the domicile as a registered permanent residence and the change of the residence must be based on the registration of household, re-sulting in the fact those who leave their registered permanent residence for a long time without registration or who come from foreign countries are unable to have a legal domicile. Second, how to identify habitual residence, which used to be connected with one's temporary residence permit, with the development of residence permit, should defi-nitely be modified. Therefore, in order to improve Chinese residence system, we should start from the correct defi-nitions of domicile and habitual residence and their constitutive requirements, and with there form of household reg-istration system and the spread of residence permit, we should also explore what roles they will play in the recogni-tion of subject and object constitutive requirements.%“住所”及“经常居住地”是我国民法上住所制度的重要内容，然而其概念及认定在理论和实践层面多有弊病。首先，《民法通则》仅以公民的户籍所在地为住所地，变更住所必须以户籍登记为生效要件，导致实践中长期离开户籍地而未作登记的公民以及外国公民难以获得法律上的“住所”；其次，“经常居住地”的认定以往多与暂住证的取得密切相关，随着居住证的推行，“经常居住地”的认定方法需要调整。解决上述问题，须从正确界定“住所”与“经常居住地”的概念及构成要件入手，然后结合户籍制度改革及居住证制度的推行，探索其在认定主观及客观构成要件上发挥的作用，从而完善我国自然人住所制度。
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