That is BS, John O'Shea (we all know you are Chinese by your obvious lack of English skills. and poor sentence structure. Your English is terrible, so you are ovbiously not a teacher.
English lessons are not being removed from classes, but they are more and more important in China. You are jealous because you are not a native speaker. The only good cirriculums are foreign ones, and you know it. Everyone of the books printed in China to teach English is absolute crap. Teachers in China who are Chinese are poor English soeakers, and the demand for Native speakers will always exceed the supply.