China education: Two years after tutoring crackdown, parents still find ways to feed their ‘gold-swallowing beasts’

This is the first part in a series that explores the current state of consumption across China, including a look at the expenses that many families find most pressing.

For Liu Hao, the mother of an 11-year-old boy in eastern China’s Ningbo city, July brought her biggest set of monthly expenses in more than three years.