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What’s Behind Beijing’s Crackdown on China’s Tutoring Industry?

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What’s Behind Beijing’s Crackdown on China’s Tutoring Industry?
Students leaving a school after finishing the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), known as Gaokao, in Wuhan, China, on June 9, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images
He Qinglian
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On July 24, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping banned for-profit tutoring on core school subjects. I believe that such a move is related to the CCP’s strategic plan for China’s future education. Since the Mao Zedong era, the CCP has been fully aware that education pertains to its future successors.

He Qinglian
He Qinglian
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He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.
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