China’s crackdown on tutoring leaves parents with new problems

Public largely sceptical about effectiveness of move last month aimed at reducing pressure in hyper-competitive education field

In 2018, Ms Hu spent a third of her annual income sending her child to summer school in Shanghai. In the following year, the cost went up. Still, she and her partner paid the fees, such is the competitiveness in Chinese children's education.

My son started to learn English at age five. I feared he would be left behind if we don't do so," she said.