by The Chinese people are such fanatics about educating their offspring that the Chinese government felt it needed to step in and give the kids a break by liming their exposure to both formal education (amount of homework) and informal education (after-school tutoring). Tutoring was a growth industry in China until the reforms curtailed it. It had already expanded outside mainland China and now the push is on to expand it further to make up for the market lost in China. It serves not only Chinese living abroad but other Asian, Asians in general tending to be obsessed with education in comparison with Western interest in it.Education and health are key components of a nation's infrastructure. Infrastructure provides both a tangible foundation for national progress and also an intangible one
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The Chinese people are such fanatics about educating their offspring that the Chinese government felt it needed to step in and give the kids a break by liming their exposure to both formal education (amount of homework) and informal education (after-school tutoring).
Tutoring was a growth industry in China until the reforms curtailed it. It had already expanded outside mainland China and now the push is on to expand it further to make up for the market lost in China. It serves not only Chinese living abroad but other Asian, Asians in general tending to be obsessed with education in comparison with Western interest in it.
Education and health are key components of a nation's infrastructure. Infrastructure provides both a tangible foundation for national progress and also an intangible one in terms of the quality of human resources assessed on the basis of the ability to apply knowledge and skills and to grow. This constitutes labor as a factor of production versus capital and land.
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