HONG KONG—China confirmed it would take drastic steps to restrain the country’s booming after-school tutoring industry, prompting further selloffs in stocks such as New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. on Monday.
The restrictions, published over the weekend by state media,are the most recent regulatory assault on a fast-growing part of the Chinese economy. They follow a monthslong crackdown onthat has rattled companies such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. , its unlisted sister company Ant Group Co., and ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc.
New Oriental’s Hong Kong-listed shares, which had lost more than two-fifths of their value on Friday, crashed by an additional 37.5% on Monday morning in the city, giving the company a market value of about $4.2 billion, according to FactSet. The company, whose primary listing is in the U.S., has lost nearly $30 billion of market capitalization since its shares peaked in mid-February.
Chinese parents are being fear fed by these educational tutoring companies that their child will be left behind unless they spend more money. A child’s place is to spend much of its childhood playing. The government is right to come heavily on these billion dollar industry.
Planning economy is coming back in China. Too bad.
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This is communism.
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They want people to have more babies
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