BEIJING (CAIXIN GLOBAL) - At a 24-hour coffee shop in Beijing's Haidian district, private tutor Ming Tian was explaining a math question to students.
A few blocks away in a 20-story building at the E-wing Center housing scores of after-school tutoring facilities, classrooms and offices were empty.
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