Company: VSA
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-001300
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Company: VisionSys AI Inc
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 121
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 approvals from local education authorities for opening new branches or learning centers.
In addition, the Notice on Effectively Reducing Extracurricular Burdens of Primary and Middle School Students and Conducting Special Administrative Actions for After-school Tutoring Institutions promulgated by the Ministry of Education and other authorities on February 13, 2018, the Notice on Effectively Conducting Special Administrative Actions for After-school Tutoring Institutions promulgated by the Ministry of Education on August 31, 2018, the Notice on Perfecting the Working System of Conducting Special Administrative Actions for After-school Tutoring Institutions promulgated by the Ministry of Education and other authorities on November 20, 2018, and the Notice on Measures to Reduce the Burden on Primary and Secondary School Students promulgated by the Ministry of Education and other authorities on December 28, 2018, also provide that after-school tutoring institutions shall obtain school operation permits and business licenses.
On March 30, 2021, the Ministry of Education promulgated the Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Education on Vigorously Promoting the Scientific Connection of Kindergartens and Primary Schools, which prohibits after-school tutoring institutions from providing training for pre-school children in violation of regulations and provides that after-school tutoring institutions in violation of the regulations above shall be included in the blacklist.
On April 8, 2021, the General Office of the Ministry of Education enacted the Notice of Strengthening the Management of Homework for Compulsory Education, which requires that the local governments shall implement prohibition measures on leaving homework as an important part of the daily supervision on after-school tutoring institutions in accordance with the regulations, and in order to avoid reducing the study load in schools but increasing the study load after-school, after-school tutoring institutions shall not leave homework to primary and secondary school students.

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On July 24, 2021, the General Office of the State Council and the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China jointly promulgated the Alleviating Burden Opinions. The Alleviating Burden Opinions requires that the local governmental authorities shall administer the non-academic after-school tutoring institutions by classifying sports, culture and art, science and technology and other non-academic subjects, formulating standards among different classification of non-academic tutoring and conducting strict examination before granting permission. The Alleviating Burden Opinions sets out a series of operating requirements for Academic AST Institutions, including, among other things, that (i) the local