Several 'contributors' to this forum are apparently recruiters themselves or shills for private language schools hoping to lure FTs to China with inadequate credentials.

Why would they do that?

For the first time China is actually enforcing basic requirements IN EVERY PROVINCE. The result is that institutions nation-wide are having an impossible time acquiring an adequate number of qualified teachers for the coming Fall semester.

Legitimate public universities and high schools will make do with less FTs and shift the work load to Chinese teachers of English

But private language schools need white faces for parents. Their only solution is to pay recruiters to provide employees that will work illegally. Recruiters will assure you that you are legally employed, but when you arrive in China the police will fail to approve your FEC and residence permit because you do not have an apostilled 4 year degree from one of the approved English speaking countries, EFL certification from an approved school or two years work experience and a valid Z visa in hand.

At this point, broke and in China, the recruiter has a solution which generates a fee for him, a white face for his complicit client and puts you at daily risk of fines, incarceration and deportation: working illegally.

DO NOT accept the advice of recruiters and DO NOT trust advice from posters on this forum that misrepresent themselves as foreign teachers in China.