To be fair, there *are* teachers that EV goes legit with each year but how they decide who is whom is a mystery.

Must be why friends back there report open contracts with EV, and other Ts shuttling about covering classes.

I had heard that teachers teaching illegally for Yuncheng agents were usually shunted between PARTICULAR counties every semester, and that the county police were turning a blind eye to the illegal teaching after accepting fat bribes from the agents. But in most cases, the teacher had to leave the county after one semester to be replaced by a 'new' illegal teacher. However, things may well have changed in that respect following the start of the 2nd semester of last academic year.

As far as I know, no illegally employed FT working for a Yuncheng agent has been caught so far this semester, and I know that a Polish couple were initially teaching on F visas in a Yuncheng county. They must surely have gotten their Z visas from HK by now. I reckon that there is still no rule of law re illegal teaching in most Yuncheng counties. However, I could be wrong. I also think the school in that other Shanxi city that was unlicensed to hire FTs was targeted because the director hadn't given a bung to the authorities in advance. Anyways, it's all conjecture!