Deep excavation of new opportunities in education industry: increasing competition in niche market areas

is investment in education too overheated? do VCs still "spoil" the industry with new concerns?　　In the recently held 2009ChinaVenture China Investment Annual meeting, the wind cast heat on the domestic education industry to invest in new opportunities. It is reported that from 2006 to 2008, the education industry investment cases were 18, 22, 33. But the same time period, 7 education Enterprises withdrew, 10 were merged.　　Industry leading the new Oriental, amber and other educational enterprises, in the active search for mergers and acquisitions objectives, the Education Industry subdivision area has shown a trend of integration, venture capital depth potential has emerged.　　Cao, managing director of the American Speed of light venture, the old venture capital, says vocational training in the education industry has a lot of room for development because it solves the core problem of employment, policy support and market demand.　　Longyu, managing director of Bertelsmann, said the company was more concerned about the Chinese government's strategy to encourage high-quality talent, and that the ability to get into preschool children's cognition was also an area of great concern to the company.　　Headquartered in New York, Pearson, which earns $8 billion a year, is investing in education-related newspaper groups. In response to the overheating of education investment, most investors at the meeting agreed that the sign of overheating in an industry is that both private and public funds are used for acquisitions or mergers, but the education industry has yet to emerge with a similar wave of mergers and acquisitions.　　As a result, investment in education is not yet overheated, but competition in the market segments is markedly intensified.　　However, the participants believe that investment in education funds must be patient, must cultivate a good operation team, otherwise, the most dangerous moment of investment enterprises, is to get private equity financing of the next 6-12 months. Cao predicts that, with the rapid development of China's capital market, the privatization of schools is likely to land in China's a-share market in the next two or three years, on the premise of improving school quality and teachers ' ability.