Regulations Governing the Recruitment and Management of Admission of Foreigners to Short-Term Tutorial Centers Article 7

The MOE shall invite personnel from the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the local competent authorities of the Ministry of Labor, and scholars and experts in the field of Chinese language teaching to meet and conduct a joint review of the applications referred to in Article 5.The results of the review shall be made public by June 30 of each year. The MOE may limit the total number of short-term tutorial centers given approval to admit students from overseas, based on consideration of regional balance and quality control factors.The approvals referred to in the preceding paragraph are valid for three years. Three months before its approval expires, a short-term tutorial center may lodge an application for a subsequent approval by once again following the application provisions of these Regulations.