China’s tutoring industry struggles after reforms call time on lucrative business model

China’s tutoring industry struggles after reforms call time on lucrative business model

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One day in October, Songwan elementary school in Central China’s Henan province received a donation out of the blue — 300 school desks — shipped from a branch of the private tutoring company New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. 200 miles away.