Education stocks were generally up this morning, with New Oriental-S (09901.HK) opening high today by 7.59% and reaching a maximum of 51.8 yuan. It is currently trading at 51.75 yuan, up 9.18%, with a turnover of 4.2551 million shares and involving capital of 0.218 billion yuan.

Chalk (02469.HK) opened high today by 4.46% and reached a maximum of 3.04 yuan. It is currently trading at 3.04 yuan, up 13.01%, with a turnover of 10.3704 million shares and involving capital of 30.2254 million yuan.

Maple Leaf Education (01317.HK) opened flat today, reaching a maximum of 0.26 yuan. It is currently trading at 0.255 yuan, up 7.14%, with a turnover of 0.708 million shares and involving capital of 0.1748 million yuan.

Yuhua Edu (06169.HK) opened high today by 2.44% and reached a maximum of 0.43 yuan. It is currently trading at 0.43 yuan, up 4.88%, with a turnover of 0.178 million shares and involving capital of 0.0762 million yuan.

Scholar Edu (01769.HK) released a profit alert, expecting to earn over 87% more in the midterm, and opened high today by 14.68%, reaching a maximum of 5 yuan. It is currently trading at 4.54 yuan, up 4.13%, with a turnover of 3.792 million shares and involving capital of 17.2791 million yuan.

The State Council recently issued the "Opinions on Promoting High-Quality Development of Service Consumption," which mentioned stimulating the vitality of education and training consumption, promoting the opening up of quality education resources for higher education institutions, scientific research institutions, and social organizations, meeting the diversified and personalized learning needs of the society. Promoting the improvement and efficiency of vocational education, building high-level vocational schools and majors, and promoting social training institutions to improve service quality in response to public demands. Guiding schools to introduce qualified third-party institutions with non-subject high-quality public welfare after-school services through purchasing services and other methods in accordance with relevant regulations. Encouraging cooperation with internationally renowned higher education institutions to develop high-level cooperative education in China. (cy/w)

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