Lingo Bus extends Mandarin learning offering

Lingo Bus, a subsidiary of China's largest online education startup VIPKID, is looking to expand its overseas presence significantly to become the world's largest online Chinese-teaching platform within three years.

"We will beef up our presence in the overseas market, especially in Southeast Asia as well as countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative," said Su Haifeng, head of Lingo Bus.

"We plan to attract a total of 50,000 paid users overseas and more than 10,000 skilled Chinese teachers in three years," he said.