China seeks to lift homework pressures on schoolchildren - BBC News

China has passed an education law aimed at reducing the pressures of excessive homework and intensive after-school tutoring, state media say.

Parents are being asked to ensure their children have reasonable time for rest and exercise, and do not spend too much time online.

"I work 996 [from 9am to 9pm, six days a week], and when I come home at night I still need to carry out family education?" one user asked, quoted by the South China Morning Post newspaper.

At the time, the move was seen as authorities trying to ease the financial pressures of raising children, after China posted a record low birth rate.

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