The Hong Kong education sector fell collectively today, with New Oriental Education & Technology Group-S (09901) down 6 per cent, Chinese Education Holdings (00839) down 5.12 per cent, Hope Education (01765) down 4.35 per cent and Yuhua Education (06169) down 2.94 per cent, Zhitong Financial APP learned.

On the news side, recently, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission issued a notice on its official website on further doing a good job in the filing and management of educational mobile Internet applications, which will no longer accept the filing application for frontline training in education mobile applications, and will be revoked if it has been put on record. The notice stresses that educational mobile applications shall not provide platforms or functions for unauthorized institutions or individuals to carry out subject training; shall not provide and disseminate functions such as "photo search" that inert the thinking ability of primary and secondary school students, affect students' independent thinking, and violate the laws of education and teaching. Compared with the draft for soliciting opinions in February this year, the requirements of this "notice" are more stringent. In addition to banning the consistency of "photo search questions", the draft for soliciting opinions proposes that all educational mobile applications for preschool children's training will stop running, while the "notice" will completely withdraw the record.