履约保证金应向谁提交

随着工程建设项目规模的越来越大，风险也随之增大，业主为了高质量的完成工程，会要求承包商在签订合同前提交履约保证金，但关于履约保证金的含义及形式，很多人不是很清楚，国内也存在许多不规范的做法，因此引起各种各样的纠纷，给项目的顺利完成带来困难。本文以一个案例为引子，结合国际惯例，对履约保证金的含义及表现形式做了较详细的介绍，重点介绍了履约保证担保，同时针对目前我国履约担保的现状，借鉴国际经验，提出若干建议。

Who Should Accept the Performance Security Sum

As the project volume increases, the risk will increase correspondingly. In order to finish the project successfully, usually, the client would ask the contractor to submit a performance security sum. However, its meaning and form are not very clear and there is a lot of abnormal operation in China. Many dissensions have been arisen, which make the project performance difficult. Starting with a case study combined with international convention, the meaning and form of the performance security sum are explained in detail and the performance bond is introduced as a main point. At the same time, aiming at the actual situation in China some instructive advice according to international experience is put forward.