The Office of the the State Council Education Steering Committee issued the Notice on Prohibiting Appraisal and Selling Compulsory Tasks Not Related to Education and Teaching, which pointed out that in some places, the growing demand for official government app or WeChat accounts and various evaluation tasks were passed on to parents of students through parents, which increased the burden on schools and parents, and "fingertip formalism" spread to schools.
On July 2 1, the Education Supervision Office of the People's Government of Fujian Province issued the Notice on Prohibiting Giving Schools Mandatory Tasks such as "Boosting", "Evaluating Excellent Students" and "Selling" unrelated to education and teaching. The "Notice" pointed out: further raise awareness. All localities should fully implement the central government's decision on constantly solving the outstanding problems of formalism and reducing the burden on the grassroots, resolutely oppose formalism and bureaucracy, curb the trend of formalism transferring to schools, put an end to the practice of transferring administrative tasks to campuses, prevent commercial interests from encroaching on campuses in disguise, effectively reduce the burden on primary and secondary schools and parents, and constantly create a relaxed and quiet education and teaching environment.