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.
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)
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