Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 121

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 121
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 call for the ease of access to the operation of private schools and encourage social forces to enter into the education industry. The opinions also provide that each level of the government shall increase their support to the private schools in terms of financial investment, financial support, autonomy policies, preferential tax treatments, land policies, fee policies, autonomy operation, protection of the rights of teachers and students etc. Further, the opinions require each level of the government to improve local policies on government support to for-profit and non-profit private schools by such means as preferential tax treatments.

Regulations on Online Education

On September 19, 2019, the Ministry of Education, jointly with multiple PRC government authorities, issued the Guidance Opinions on Promoting the Healthy Development of Online Education, which provide, among others, that (i) social forces are encouraged to establish online education institutions, develop online education resources, and provide high quality educational services; and (ii) an online education negative list shall be promulgated, and industries not included in the negative list are open for all types of entities to enter. Moreover, the Ministry of Education, jointly with multiple PRC government authorities, promulgated the Opinions on Guiding and Regulating the Orderly and Healthy Development of Educational Mobile Apps on August 10, 2019, which require, among others, that mobile apps providing services for school teaching and management, student learning and student life, or home-school interactions, with school faculty, students, or parents as the main users, and with education or learning as the main application scenarios, be filed with competent provincial regulatory authorities for education.

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Regulations on Vocational Education

The PRC Vocational Education Law, promulgated by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on May 15, 1996 and amended on April 20, 2022, and becoming effective on May 1, 2022, applies to vocational schools of all types and levels and vocational training of to all forms. According to this law, institutional organizations, social organizations, and other social groups and individuals are encouraged to operate vocational schools and vocational training institutions according to applicable provisions. The law divides vocational school education into elementary, secondary, and higher vocational education. Vocational school education includes secondary vocational school education and tertiary vocational school education. The secondary vocational school education must be conducted by secondary vocational schools (including technical training schools) at the advanced level of secondary education. The tertiary vocational school education must be conducted by tertiary vocational schools and regular higher education