On September 5, 2019, the Ministry of Education promulgated the first comprehensive national-level regulatory document on mobile education apps—the Opinions of the Ministry of Education and Seven Other Departments on Guiding and Regulating the Sound and Orderly Development of Education Mobile Internet Applications [Jiao Ji Han (2019) No. 55] (“Circular 55”). On the same day, officials from the Ministry of Education announced, during a press conference, that the preliminary draft of record-filing measures for education mobile Internet apps is planned to be issued for further public comments by the end of September . It has been only little more than one month since the Ministry of Education promulgated its first regulatory document specially targeting online extracurricular training institutions, the Implementing Opinions on Regulating Online Extracurricular Training Institutions (“Circular 8”). The promulgation of Circular 8 and Circular 55 indicates that the long-awaited policies on online education in the education industry are soon arriving, and that online education is welcoming a new regulatory era.