HONG KONG, June 16 (Reuters) - China is poised to unveil a much tougher than anticipated crackdown on the country’s $120 billion private tutoring industry, four sources told Reuters, including trial bans on vacation tutoring and restrictions on advertising. The new rules, which aim both to ease pressure on school children and boost the country's birth rate by lowering family living costs, could be announced as early as next week and take effect next month, two of the people with knowledge of the plans said.
The imposition of a trial ban on both online and offline tutoring over the summer and winter holidays in Beijing, Shanghai and other major cities, cited by the sources, goes much further than the planned measures first reported by Reuters last month.
The new rules would be stricter than expected," said one of the sources, a person close to regulators drafting the new rules. "The industry should be preparing for the worst." The trial vacation ban, which adds to plans to bar online and offline tutoring on weekends during term time, could deprive tutoring companies of as much as 70-80% of their annual revenue, two of the sources said.
【 在 yimaocpu 的大作中提到: 】
: 昨天，网络上一直流传一则以“禁止寒暑假校外培训”为标题的图片消息
: 大意是说本月将公布试行“禁止假日期间补课”的新规定。
: 这个传言其实很不靠谱！
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