In July 2021, the “double reduction” policy forced tutoring companies for school subjects to become non-profit organizations. A year after the policy, many small tutoring businesses had moved underground.
On December 13, 2022, the Ministry of Education and eleven other departments issued an opinion against “hidden and variant” subject tutoring. Recruitment and tutoring websites were barred from posting tutoring jobs, and advertising tutoring to primary and middle school students was banned.