If the U.S. won’t pay its teachers, China will

Business & Technology

VIPKid, a startup launched by a high-school dropout from China, pairs young Chinese students with foreign tutors who teach them online. It is seeing huge growth as Chinese demand for high-quality education soars.

Lucas Niewenhuis
Credit: Beijing, China - 8 December 2016. Cindy Mi, 33, founder of VipKid, an online education service to connect kids in China with the best teachers in the US, poses for a portrait in the terrace of the company's headquaters which is situated in the heart of Beijing. In the background, the Bell Tower in Gulou area.

Lucas Niewenhuis is the Newsletter Editor at The China Project. Previously, he has researched China-Africa relations at the Social Science Research Council, interned at the Council on Foreign Relations, and studied Chinese language and culture in Shanghai and Beijing. Read more

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