Hiring of foreign teachers should abide by rules

Editor's note: On Tuesday, Beijing No 3 Intermediary People's Court gave a final ruling in the retrial of a case, in which three defendants working for an education company were given prison sentences of one and a half to two years for helping people to illegally cross national borders. China Daily writer Li Yang comments:

The verdict states they helped a Serbian citizen and a Ukrainian citizen, who are not qualified to teach, to obtain short-term study and business visit visas to come to China, and introduced them to work as English language teachers at kindergartens from 2016 to 2017.

The court's decision comes at a time when how to strengthen management of expats particularly in the education sector in China has stirred heated discussions, after some universities were exposed providing international students with supernational treatment.