What’s the end game for China’s crackdown on private tutoring? Wants a fair and sustainable society

In the second part of a series exploring China’s recent moves against the technology industry, Coco Feng and Jane Zhang look at the surprise crackdown on edtech.

Huang Yu, a mother of two in Shenzhen, spends about 80,000 yuan (US$12,350) per year on after-school tuition classes for her nine-year-old son and four-year-old daughter for traditional subjects like English and mathematics, as well as computer programming, painting, piano, football and even basic engineering with Lego.

Huang’s tuition budget, nearly double the average annual salary of urban Chinese workers in 2020, is beyond most of the country’s households with an annual disposable income per capita of about 32,189 yuan.

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