Commentary On July 24, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping banned for-profit tutoring on core school subjects. I believe that such a move is related to the CCP’s strategic plan for China’s future education. Since the Mao Zedong era, the CCP has been fully aware that education pertains to its future successors. There are different views on the collective clampdown on the off-campus tutoring industry in China. Chinese state media claim that it was to reduce parents’ financial burden in order to encourage them to raise more children, which would help solve the population crisis. Netizens see it as a crackdown on private capital, a move to further indoctrinate CCP ideology when “Xi Jinping thought” is being added to the national curriculum. I think the main reason for such a heavy-handed ban stems from the CCP’s strong will to take back control from an already booming private sector that is perceived as …