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In July 2021, China announced the “double reduction” policy (chính sách) in a bid to ease (giảm) the academic burden (gánh nặng học hành) on students (học sinh) and save parents from spending eye-watering amounts on after-school classes. The campaign (chiến dịch) sent shockwaves (làn sóng kinh hãi) through the $300 billion industry, leaving household names in the education sector spinning and sending tens of thousands of people out of work.

Though authorities initially (ban đầu) claimed the policy was working (có hiệu quả/thành công), it has led to a large number of tutoring (dậy thêm) firms offering classes secretly (bí mật), with as many as 3,000 of them providing illegal academic training during the second quarter of 2022, according to the education ministry. In July, a Sixth Tone investigation found an emerging (mới nổi, mới xuất hiện) black market (chợ đen) that particularly targeted rich families (nhà giàu) eager to give their children a competitive edge (lợi thế cạnh tranh).

The new regulation also urged local officials to curb (kiềm chế) illegal (bất hợp pháp) academic tutoring hidden in venues such as residential compounds (tòa dân cư), commercial buildings (tòa thương mại), hotels, and cafés through “community management.” Additionally, the ministry also called for supervision of online job websites (trang web việc làm trên mạng) to be strengthened, and job ads related to after-school tutoring to be banned (bị cấm).

Authorities have asked schools to discourage students and parents from supporting private tutoring activities, calling upon guardians to instill “correct educational values.” But parents, who were already anxious (lo âu) over the closure of private classes, said they are still willing to pay for such services, even if they were illegal.

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