If one was to look on the positive side, some would just see that as the next potential battle. The good thing would be that several agencies that rely upon sending teachers to schools that are not licensed to hire foreigners, will slowly die out if the law gets executed well (We also need to read it first to verify). In addition, shitty training centres that rely upon farming out teachers to public schools for their income, are going to suffer, really bad.

As more schools are forced to hire their teachers directly, standards may inprove greatly. Rather than letting an agency do the dirty work, they will be responsible for whom they hire. I won't use the politically incorrect 'R word' this time, but it should flush out many of those inadequate teachers from the Chinese ESL industry.

It may also destroy part time teaching opportunities, which could be a negative thing for many a public school teacher.