CGGC has also carried out donations and volunteer activities in local communities, orphanages and nursing homes while supporting staff education and training, local health and environmental protection, students' extracurricular activities and more.
CGGC还在当地社区、孤儿院和疗养院开展捐赠和志愿者活动，同时支持员工教育和培训、当地卫生和环境保护、学生课外活动等。
In China's billion-dollar tutoring and online education (or edtech－educational technology) sector, companies typically offer a bouquet of extracurricular products and services.
This has been attributed to the pressures created by excessively tough and progressively expensive extracurricular learning programs, which, observers said, have also created unhealthy competition among both market entities and consumers.
The total size of the extracurricular English training market in China is estimated at 2.6 billion yuan ($371.3 million) with some 26.5 million users, of which about 5.8 million are online subscribers, according to the 2020 China Online Kids and Teens English Teaching Market Report developed by Key Laboratory of Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Qianzhan Industry Research Institute based in Shenzhen.
The education group, focusing on extracurricular tutorials, owns nearly a thousand teaching schools in more than 100 cities.
Chinese parents have extended the extracurricular activities of their children to summer vacations, as tourism packages involving study trips and experimental program participation have seen a sharp rise recently thanks to growing demand for pursuing increasingly versatile academic subjects, industry insiders said.
A representative of online travel agency Tuniu told Ningbo Evening News that the "double reduction" policy affords children more time for extracurricular activities, which has driven the creation of more tourism products for parents and children.
Tottenham-backed programs target students as sports economy takes offThe University of Wollongong near Sydney and the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club of England have teamed up to launch educational programs with soccer as an extracurricular subject from January 2020, which is expected to help China realize its long-term dream of emerging as a global force in the sport.
The data showed extracurricular reading has become an important part of schoolchildren's life.
On a typical Saturday afternoon, Li Nan, a 38-year-old housewife, is busy taking her son for extracurricular lessons at a school in Beijing's Haidian district.
When the State Council, China's Cabinet, released the "double reduction" policy in July 2021 to relieve the twin burdens of homework and extracurricular activities that were weighing down primary and middle school students, share prices of online education platforms nosedived.
The guideline requires that communities hold extracurricular activities for primary and secondary school students and that museums, education centers, cultural centers, sports venues, parks and art venues should be open to primary school and preschool pupils for free or at a discount.
An official with the Ministry of Education's Department of Basic Education said the guideline will help implement the double reduction policy, which reduces the excessive amount of homework and extracurricular tutoring students face.