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Xi Jinping has been quietly backtracking on his policy to ban for-profit tutoring schools as he refocuses on solving an unemployment crisis. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Getty Images and Yusuke Hinata)

Analysis: How Xi Jinping's tutoring school ban backfired

The need for jobs is trumping the president's attempt to smooth over China's divides

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

It appears "capitalist roaders" are gaining some sway in President Xi Jinping's China, where a controversial policy of three years ago is being quietly put aside in the name of turning around the economy.

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