China’s Education Ministry Sets Up Office To Oversee After-School Tutoring

China’s education ministry has opened an office to oversee after-school tutoring in a move that comes as part of a national clamp-down on the private tutoring sector.

China has framed tough new rules for the industry, aiming both to ease pressure on school children and boost the country’s birth rate by lowering family living costs, sources told Reuters last month.

Recall in a major policy shift recently, China said that it would allow all married couples to have three children, ending a two-child policy that has failed to raise the country’s declining birthrates and avert a demographic crisis.

The official Xinhua news agency said following a politburo meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping, the policy change will come with supportive measures, which will be conducive to improving our country’s population structure, fulfilling the country’s strategy of actively coping with an ageing population.