context: As parents demand more private options for schooling, Party organisations are scrambling to remain the core of supervision and decision-making in newly-established educational institutions. While private educational institutions grow in number, so do efforts by local officials to establish Party branches in parallel.
Qinhuai District, Nanjing will establish another 12 Party branches in private tutoring institutions with the help of existing Party offices in public schools, reports Nanjing Daily. Qinhuai District Party Committee, having already approved 12 private institutions providing extracurricular tutoring services in H1 2018, has designated 11 Party secretaries from public kindergartens, primary, middle and high schools with previous experience in Party construction to oversee the establishment and operation of these new offices.
Sun Kai 孙凯 Nanjing TAL Education director disclosed to Nanjing Daily that 16 percent of total staff and over 50 percent of management in their particular institution are Party members.