EXCLUSIVE-China planning new crackdown on private tutoring sector - sources Reuters 1 hr ago (Updates share closing price in penultimate para; fixes typo in last para) Popular Searches By Julie Zhu and Yingzhi Yang HONG KONG/BEIJING, May 13 (Reuters) - China is framing tough new rules to clamp down on a booming private tutoring industry, aiming both to ease pressure on school children and boost the country's birth rate by lowering family living costs, sources told Reuters. The clampdown will also have the effect of cooling China's cutthroat tutoring market for kindergarten through to the 12th grade, or K-12 pupils, that has grown exponentially in recent years to around $120 billion.