F-1/A 1 ea160759-f1a8_goldensun.htm AMENDMENT NO. 8 TO FORM F-1

As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2022.

Registration No. 333-255891

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Amendment No. 8

to

FORM F-1

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

Golden Sun Education Group Limited

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Cayman Islands   8200   Not Applicable
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

 

Profit Huiyin Square North Building,

Huashan 2018, Unit 1001,

Xuhui District, Shanghai, China

+86-0577-56765303

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

Cogency Global Inc.

122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor

New York, NY 10168

800-221-0102

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

Copies of all communications, including communications sent to agent for service, should be sent to:

 

Ying Li, Esq.

Lisa Forcht, Esq.

Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC
48 Wall Street, Suite 1100
New York, NY 10005
(212) 530-2206

David B. Manno, Esq.

Huan Lou, Esq.

Sichenzia Ross Ference LLP

1185 Avenue of the Americas, 31st Floor

New York, NY 10036

(212) 930-9700

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Promptly after the effective date of this registration statement.

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box.

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933

 

Emerging growth company

 

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act

 

The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to such Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell the securities until the registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting any offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where such offer or sale is not permitted.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION

 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS DATED May 31, 2022

  

4,400,000 Class A Ordinary Shares

 

 

Golden Sun Education Group Limited

 

This is an initial public offering of our Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0005 per share (“Class A Ordinary Shares”). We are offering on a firm commitment basis our Class A Ordinary Shares. Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our Class A Ordinary Shares. We expect the initial public offering price to be in the range of $4 to $5 per Class A Ordinary Share. We have reserved the symbol “GSUN” for purposes of listing our Class A Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market and applied to list our Class A Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market. It is a condition to the closing of this offering that the Class A Ordinary Shares qualify for listing on a national securities exchange.

 

Our outstanding share capital consists of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0005 per share (“Class B Ordinary Shares”). Holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares have the same rights except for voting and conversion rights. In respect of matters requiring the votes of shareholders, each Class A Ordinary Share is entitled to one vote, and each Class B Ordinary Share is entitled to five votes and is convertible into one Class A Ordinary Share at any time by the holder thereof. Class A Ordinary Shares are not convertible into Class B Ordinary Shares under any circumstances. The Class B holders will be able to exercise approximately 60% of the total votes of our issued and outstanding share capital immediately following the completion of this offering, assuming the sale of 4,400,000 Class A Ordinary Shares, and excluding the effects of the exercise of the Underwriter Warrants and the over-allotment option.

 

Investing in our Class A Ordinary Shares involves a high degree of risk, including the risk of losing your entire investment. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 17 to read about factors you should consider before buying our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

We are not a Chinese operating company, but rather a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. As a holding company with no material operations of our own, we conduct a substantial majority of our operations through our operating entities established in the People’s Republic of China (or the “PRC”). The Class A Ordinary Shares offered in this prospectus are shares of the Cayman Islands holding company. Holders of our Class A Ordinary Shares do not directly own any equity interests in our Chinese operating subsidiaries, but will instead own shares of a Cayman Islands holding company. The Chinese regulatory authorities could disallow our corporate structure, which would likely result in a material change in our operations and/or a material change in the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares, including that it could cause the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares to significantly decline or become worthless. Unless otherwise stated, as used in this prospectus and in the context of describing our operations and consolidated financial information, “we,” “us,” “Company,” or “our,” refers to Golden Sun Education Group Limited, a Cayman Island holding company. For a description of our corporate structure, see “Corporate History and Structure.” See also “Risk Factors – Risks Relating to Our Corporate Structure.”

 

 

 

 

We are subject to legal and operational risks associated with being based in and having the majority of our operations in China. These risks may result in a material change in our operations, or a complete hindrance of our ability to offer or continue to offer our securities to investors, and could cause the value of such securities to significantly decline or become worthless. Recently, the PRC government initiated a series of regulatory actions and statements to regulate business operations in China with little advance notice, including cracking down on illegal activities in the securities market, enhancing supervision over China-based companies listed overseas using variable interest entity structure, and adopting new measures to extend the scope of cybersecurity reviews. On July 6, 2021, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued an announcement to crack down on illegal activities in the securities market and promote the high-quality development of the capital market, which, among other things, requires the relevant governmental authorities to strengthen cross-border oversight of law-enforcement and judicial cooperation, to enhance supervision over China-based companies listed overseas, and to establish and improve the system of extraterritorial application of the PRC securities laws. On December 28, 2021, the Cyberspace Administration of China (the "CAC”), together with 12 other governmental departments of the PRC, jointly promulgated the Cybersecurity Review Measures, which became effective on February 15, 2022. The Cybersecurity Review Measures requires that an online platform operator which possesses the personal information of at least one million users must apply for a cybersecurity review by the CAC if it intends to be listed in foreign countries. As confirmed by our PRC counsel, Pacgate Law Firm, since we are not an online platform operator that possesses over one million users’ personal information, we are not subject to the cybersecurity review with the CAC under the Cybersecurity Review Measures, and for the same reason, we will not be subject to the network data security review by the CAC if the Draft Regulations on the Network Data Security Administration (Draft for Comments) (the “Security Administration Draft”) are enacted as proposed.

 

In addition, since 2021, the Chinese government has strengthened its anti-monopoly supervision, mainly in three aspects: (1) establishing the National Anti-Monopoly Bureau; (2) revising and promulgating anti-monopoly laws and regulations, including: the Anti-Monopoly Law (draft Amendment published on October 23, 2021 for public opinions), the anti-monopoly guidelines for various industries, and the detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Fair Competition Review System; and (3) expanding the anti-monopoly law enforcement targeting Internet companies and large enterprises. As of the date of this prospectus, the Chinese government's recent statements and regulatory actions related to anti-monopoly concerns have not impacted our ability to conduct business, accept foreign investments, or list on a U.S. or other foreign exchange because neither the Company nor its PRC operating entities engage in monopolistic behaviors that are subject to these statements or regulatory actions. 

 

Furthermore, the Chinese education sector has been going through a series of reforms and new laws and guidelines have been recently promulgated and released to regulate our industry. On September 1, 2021, the revised Implementation Rules for the Law for Promoting Private Education of the PRC (the “Implementing Regulation”), which regulates the establishment, organization and operation of private schools, teachers and educators, assets and financial management of schools, became effective. The revised Implementing Regulation prohibits private schools that provide compulsory education to be controlled by means of agreements or to enter into any transactions with any related parties. As of the date of this prospectus, the Company does not operate any private schools that provide compulsory education; however, before September 2021, the Company had controlled and received the economic benefits from two private schools, or the two former variable interest entities (VIEs), that provided compulsory education through a series of contractual arrangements (the “VIE Agreements”), to provide contractual exposure to foreign investment in Chinese-based companies where Chinese law prohibits direct foreign  investment in the Chinese operating companies, which practice is prohibited by the revised Implementation Regulation. Under United States generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”), the Company was deemed to have a controlling financial interest in, and be the primary beneficiary of, the VIEs for accounting purposes, because pursuant to the VIE Agreements, the operations of the VIEs were solely for the benefit of the Company, and the Company was deemed to be the primary beneficiary of the VIEs for accounting purposes and must consolidate the VIE. In order to be compliant with the revised Implementing Regulation, in September 2021, the Company completed a reorganization to divest its operations of its two private schools (the “Reorganization”) and no longer uses a VIE structure. See “Prospectus Summary – Recent Development – The Reorganization” for more details of the Reorganization. The Reorganization has materially and adversely impacted our operations and future prospects, as these two private schools had represented a significant portion of our business and operations, which accounted for 32% and 45% of our total revenue for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

 

 

 

 

On July 24, 2021, the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council jointly issued and released the Guideline to Significantly Reduce the Excessive Burden of Homework and After-school Tutoring for Students in Primary and Middle Schools the (“Guideline”). The Guideline contains various requirements and restrictions related to after school tutoring services that teach academic subjects in compulsory education (“Academic AST Institutions”), including the requirement to register as non-profit schools, a prohibition on foreign ownership, a prohibition for listed companies on raising capital to invest in Academic AST Institutions, limitations as to when tutoring services on academic subjects may be provided, and fee standards. On July 28, 2021, to further clarify the scope of academic subjects in China’s compulsory education system, the PRC Ministry of Education issued a notice (the “Notice”). The Notice specifies that academic subjects include the following courses provided in accordance with the learning content of the national curriculum standards: Morality and Law, Chinese Language, History, Geography, Mathematics, foreign languages (English, Japanese, and Russian), Physics, Chemistry and Biology. In accordance with the Guideline and the Notice, the Company currently assesses that its tutorial centers do not provide academic subjects in China’s compulsory education system and therefore are not subject to the above requirements and restrictions on Academic AST Institutions pursuant to the Guideline. (See “Regulations - Regulations Related to Private Education – 9. Guideline to Significantly Reduce the Excessive Burden of Homework and After-school Tutoring for Students in Primary and Middle Schools”). As of the date of this prospectus, the Guideline has not impacted the Company’s ability to conduct its business, accept foreign investments, or list on a U.S. or other foreign exchange; however, the Guideline may be expanded in the future to cover any aspect of our business or operations, which could materially and adversely impact our business and financial outlook. See “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC” and “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Our Business.”

 

Our Class A Ordinary Shares may be prohibited to trade on a national exchange or over-the-counter in the United States under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, if the PCAOB determines that it cannot inspect or fully investigate our auditors for three consecutive years beginning in 2021. As a result, an exchange may determine to delist our securities. On June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which, if signed into law, would decrease the number of non-inspection years for foreign companies to comply with PCAOB audits from three to two, thus reducing the time period before their securities may be prohibited from trading or delisted. On December 16, 2021, the PCAOB issued a report on its determinations that it is unable to inspect or investigate completely PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in mainland China and in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC, because of positions taken by PRC authorities in those jurisdictions (the “Determination”). Our auditor, Friedman LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm that issues the audit report included elsewhere in this prospectus, is a PCAOB-registered public accounting firm headquartered in New York. Our auditor is subject to laws in the United States pursuant to which the PCAOB conducts regular inspections to assess auditor’s compliance with the applicable professional standards, and has been inspected by the PCAOB on a regular basis. As such, as of the date of this prospectus, our auditor is not subject to the Determinations and our offering is not affected by the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and related regulations. However, there is a risk that our auditor cannot be inspected by the PCAOB in the future. The lack of inspection could cause trading in our securities to be prohibited under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, and, as a result, Nasdaq may determine to delist our securities, which may cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless. See “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC - The newly enacted Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act passed by the U.S. Senate, all call for additional and more stringent criteria to be applied to emerging market companies upon assessing the qualification of their auditors, especially the non-U.S. auditors who are not inspected by the PCAOB. These developments could add uncertainties to our offering and listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and Nasdaq may determine to delist our securities if the PCAOB determines that it cannot inspect or fully investigate our auditor.”

 

Cash dividends, if any, on our Class A Ordinary Shares will be paid in U.S. dollars. As of the date of this prospectus, (1) no cash transfers nor transfers of other assets have occurred among the Company, its subsidiaries, and the former VIEs, (2) no dividends nor distributions have been made by a subsidiary or the former VIEs, and (3) the Company has not paid any dividends nor made any distributions to U.S. investors. We intend to keep any future earnings to finance the expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate that any cash dividends will be paid in the foreseeable future, or any funds will be transferred from one entity to another. As such, we have not installed any cash management policies that dictate how funds are transferred among Golden Sun Cayman, its subsidiaries, or investors. For further details, please refer to “PROSPECTUS SUMMARY - Selected Condensed Consolidated Financial Schedule of Golden Sun Cayman and Its Subsidiaries and VIEs”, as well as the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this registration statement. Under the Cayman Islands law, a Cayman Islands company may pay a dividend on its shares out of either profit or share premium amount, provided that in no circumstances may a dividend be paid if this would result in the company being unable to pay its debts as they become due in the ordinary course of business. Under our current corporate structure, to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have, Golden Sun Cayman Education Group Limited (“Golden Sun Cayman”) may rely on dividend payments from its PRC operating subsidiaries, Wenzhou Golden Sun Education Development Co., Ltd. (“Golden Sun Wenzhou”) and its subsidiaries, which may make distribution of such payments to Hongkong Jintaiyang International Education Holding Group (“Golden Sun Hong Kong”) and then to Golden Sun Cayman as dividends, subject to certain restrictions and limitations imposed by the PRC government.

 

Under existing PRC foreign exchange regulations, payment of current account items, such as profit distributions and trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, can be made in foreign currencies without prior approval from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or the SAFE, by complying with certain procedural requirements. Therefore, our PRC subsidiaries are able to pay dividends in foreign currencies to us without prior approval from SAFE, subject to the condition that the remittance of such dividends outside of the PRC complies with certain procedures under PRC foreign exchange regulations, such as the overseas investment registrations by our shareholders or the ultimate shareholders of our corporate shareholders who are PRC residents. Approval from, or registration with, appropriate government authorities is, however, required where the RMB is to be converted into foreign currency and remitted out of China to pay capital expenses such as the repayment of loans denominated in foreign currencies. The PRC government may also at its discretion restrict access in the future to foreign currencies for current account transactions. Current PRC regulations permit our PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to the Company only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with Chinese accounting standards and regulations. As of the date of this prospectus, there are no restrictions or limitations imposed by the Hong Kong government on the transfer of capital within, into and out of Hong Kong (including funds from Hong Kong to the PRC), except for transfer of funds involving money laundering and criminal activities. See “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC - To the extent cash or assets of our business, or of our PRC or Hong Kong subsidiaries, is in PRC or Hong Kong, such cash or assets may not be available to fund operations or for other use outside of the PRC or Hong Kong, due to interventions in or the imposition of restrictions and limitations by the PRC government to the transfer of cash or assets.”

 

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined under the federal securities laws and will be subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. Please read the disclosures beginning on page 11 of this prospectus for more information.

 

 

 

 

Following the completion of this offering, our largest shareholder, Mr. Xueyuan Weng, who is also the CEO and the chairman of the board of directors of the Company, will beneficially own approximately 60% of the aggregate voting power of our issued and outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares assuming no exercise of the over-allotment option, or approximately 59% assuming full exercise of the over-allotment option. Mr. Weng will have the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our shareholders for approval, including the election of our directors and the approval of change in control transactions, with the exception of any special resolutions, as such term is defined in the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company, that require passage by a majority of not less than two-thirds of shareholders who are eligible to vote. As such, we will be deemed a “controlled company” under Nasdaq Marketplace Rules 5615(c). However, even if we are deemed as a “controlled company,” we do not intend to avail ourselves of the corporate governance exemptions afforded to a “controlled company” under the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules. See “Risk Factors” and “Management—Controlled Company.” 

 

   Per
Class A
Ordinary
Share
   Total
Without
Over-Allotment
Option
   Total
With
Over-Allotment
Option
 
Initial public offering price  $4.5   $19,800,000   $22,770,000 
Underwriter’s discounts(1)  $0.42   $1,833,000   $2,085,450 
Proceeds to our company before expenses(2)  $4.08   $17,967,000   $20,684,550 

 

(1) See “Underwriting” in this prospectus for more information regarding our arrangements with the Underwriter.
   
(2) The total estimated expenses related to this offering are set forth in “Underwriting—Discounts and Expenses.”

 

This offering is being conducted on a firm commitment basis. The Underwriter is obligated to take and pay for all of the Class A Ordinary Shares if any such Class A Ordinary Shares are taken. We have granted the Underwriter an option for a period of 45 days after the closing of this offering to purchase up to 15% of the total number of the Class A Ordinary Shares to be offered by us pursuant to this offering (excluding Class A Ordinary Shares subject to this option), solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments, at the public offering price less the underwriting discounts. If the Underwriter exercises the option in full, the total underwriting discounts payable will be $2,085,450 based on an assumed offering price of $4.5 per Class A Ordinary Share, and the total gross proceeds to us, before underwriting discounts and expenses, will be $20,684,550.

 

We have agreed to issue to the Underwriter share purchase warrants, exercisable from the date of commencement of sales of this offering for a period of five years after such date, to purchase Class A Ordinary Shares equal to 7.5% of the total number of Class A Ordinary Shares sold in this offering, exercisable at a per share price equal to 130% of the public offering price (the “Underwriter’s Warrants”). The registration statement of which this prospectus is a part covers the Class A Ordinary Shares issuable upon the exercise thereof.

 

The Underwriter expects to deliver the Class A Ordinary Shares against payment as set forth under “Underwriting,” on or about [●], 2022.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

Network 1 Financial Securities, Inc.

 

 

Prospectus dated    , 2022.

 

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

    Page 
PROSPECTUS SUMMARY   1
     
RISK FACTORS   17
     
DISCLOSURE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS   49
     
ENFORCEABILITY OF CIVIL LIABILITIES   50
     
USE OF PROCEEDS   51
     
DIVIDEND POLICY   52
     
CAPITALIZATION   53
     
DILUTION   54
     
CORPORATE HISTORY AND STRUCTURE   55
     
MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS   57
     
INDUSTRY   68
     
BUSINESS   74
     
REGULATIONS   90
     
MANAGEMENT   101
     
PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS   107
     
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS   110
     
DESCRIPTION OF SHARE CAPITAL   112
     
SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE   129
     
MATERIAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATION   131
     
UNDERWRITING   141
     
EXPENSES RELATING TO THIS OFFERING   145
     
LEGAL MATTERS   146
     
EXPERTS   146
     
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION   146
     
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS   F-1

 

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About this Prospectus

 

We and the Underwriter have not authorized anyone to provide any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectuses prepared by us or on our behalf or to which we have referred you. We take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the Class A Ordinary Shares offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. We are not making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted or where the person making the offer or sale is not qualified to do so or to any person to whom it is not permitted to make such offer or sale. For the avoidance of doubt, no offer or invitation to subscribe for Class A Ordinary Shares is made to the public in the Cayman Islands. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of the date on the front cover of the prospectus. Our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects may have changed since that date.

 

Conventions that Apply to this Prospectus

 

Unless otherwise indicated or the context requires otherwise, references in this prospectus to:

 

  “Affiliated Entities” are to our subsidiaries, Golden Sun Shanghai (prior to the Reorganization) and Golden Sun Hong Kong, and their respective subsidiaries and schools, and to our VIEs (prior to the Reorganization);

 

  “China” or the “PRC” are to the People’s Republic of China;

 

  “Chongwen Middle School” are to Wenzhou City Longwan District Chongwen Middle School, which we controlled prior to the Reorganization via an entrustment agreement among Chongwen Middle School, Golden Sun Shanghai and Mr. Xueyuan Weng, as well as a Concerted Action Agreement among two of Chongwen Middle School’s sponsors and the representative of its employees;

 

  “Class A Ordinary Shares” are to our Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0005 per share;

 

  “Class B Ordinary Shares” are to our Class B ordinary shares, par value $0.0005 per share;

 

  “compulsory education” are to the nine years of education mandated by the PRC, consisting of six years of primary education and three years of secondary education;

 

  “Double First Class University Plan” are to “The World First Class University” and “First Class Academic Discipline Construction” combined, a tertiary education development initiative designed by the PRC government in 2015 aiming to comprehensively develop elite Chinese universities and their individual faculty departments into world-class institutions by the end of 2050;

 

  “Gaokao” are to China’s standardized college entrance examination;

 

  “Golden Sun Cayman” are to Golden Sun Education Group Limited, an exempted company with limited liability incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands;

 

  “Golden Sun Hong Kong” are to the wholly owned subsidiary of Golden Sun Cayman, Hongkong Jintaiyang International Education Holding Group, a Hong Kong private limited company;

 

  “Golden Sun Shanghai” are to Shanghai Golden Sun Education Group Co., Limited, a Hong Kong private limited company, which was Golden Sun Cayman’s wholly owned subsidiary prior to the Reorganization;

 

  “Golden Sun Wenzhou” are to the wholly owned subsidiary of Golden Sun Hong Kong, Wenzhou Golden Sun Education Development Co., Ltd., a PRC limited liability company;

 

  “Gongyu Education” are to the wholly owned subsidiary of Golden Sun Wenzhou, Shanghai Golden Sun Gongyu Education Technology Co., Ltd., a PRC limited liability company;

 

  “Group” are to our Company and Affiliated Entities as a whole;

 

  “Hongkou Tutorial” are to a tutorial center operated by Xianjin Technology; previously, “Hongkou Tutorial” were to Shanghai Hongkou Practical Foreign Language Tutorial School, which ceased operation and transferred its existing business to Xianjin Technology in December 2021;

 

  “Hangzhou Jicai” are to Hangzhou Jicai Tutorial School Co., Ltd.;

 

  “Industry Report” are to the industry report of Frost & Sullivan International Limited commissioned by us entitled “Independent Market Study on China’s Non-English foreign Language Training and Zhongkao, Gaokao Training Market Study”, which is included hereto as Exhibit 99.4 of this registration statement;

 

  “Jicai Tutorial” are to Hangzhou Jicai and Shanghai Jicai, collectively, which schools are operated under one brand and under one management team, but each of Hangzhou Jicai and Shanghai Jicai are registered as separate legal entities in two different cities;

 

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  “Key Universities” are to universities in China that are included in Project 211, Project 985 and Double First Class University Plan and that receive a high level of support from the Chinese government;

 

  “Lilong Logistics” are to the wholly owned subsidiary of Golden Sun Wenzhou, Wenzhou Lilong Logistics Services Co., Ltd., a PRC limited liability company;

 

  “MOE” are to the Ministry of Education of the PRC;

 

  “partner-schools” are to high schools that Qingshang Education partners with to provide students on-site non-English foreign languages services;

 

  “Project 211” are to a project initiated in 1995 by the MOE with the intent of raising the research standards of high-level universities and cultivating strategies for socio-economic development;

 

  “Project 985” are to a project first announced in 1998 to promote the development and reputation of the Chinese higher education system by founding world-class universities in the 21st century, involving both national and local PRC governments allocating large amounts of funding to certain universities;

 

  “Ouhai Art School” are to Wenzhou City Ouhai District Art School, which we controlled prior to the Reorganization via a series of contractual arrangements between Ouhai’s shareholders and Golden Sun Wenzhou;

 

  “Qinshang Education” are to the wholly owned subsidiary of Golden Sun Wenzhou, Zhouzhi Culture, Shanghai Qinshang Education Technology Co., Ltd., a PRC limited liability company;

 

  “secondary schools” are to middle and high schools;

 

  “Shanghai Jicai” are to Shanghai Yangpu District Jicai Tutorial School;

 

  “shares,” “Shares,” or “Ordinary Shares” are to the ordinary shares of Golden Sun Cayman, par value $0.0005 per share and. conditioned upon and effective immediately prior to the completion of this offering, collectively, our Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares;

 

  “U.S. dollars,” “$,” and “dollars” are to the legal currency of the United States;

 

  “VIE” are to variable interest entity;

 

  “VIEs” are to the former variable interest entities, Ouhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School;

 

  “we,” “us,” “our Company,” or the “Company” are to Golden Sun Cayman;

 

  “WFOE” are to wholly foreign-owned enterprise;

 

  “Xianjin Technology” are to Shanghai Xianjin Technology Development Co., Ltd., a PRC limited liability company;

 

  “Yangfushan Tutorial” are to Wenzhou City Ouhai District Yangfushan Culture Tutorial Center;

 

  “Yangtze River Delta” is a triangle-shaped megalopolis comprising areas of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu province and northern Zhejiang province;

 

  “Zhongkao” are to China’s standardized high school entrance examination; and

 

  “Zhouzhi Culture” are to the wholly owned subsidiary of Gongyu Education, Shanghai Zhouzhi Culture Development Co., Ltd., a PRC limited liability company.

 

Unless the context indicates otherwise, all information in this prospectus assumes no exercise by the Underwriter of its over-allotment option.

 

Unless expressly indicated herein to the contrary, all references to share amounts in this prospectus give retroactive effect to share consolidations, the last of which was effected on September 30, 2021.

 

Our business is conducted by our PRC operating subsidiaries, using Renminbi (“RMB”), the currency of China. Our consolidated financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars. In this prospectus, we refer to assets, obligations, commitments, and liabilities in our consolidated financial statements in U.S. dollars. These dollar references are based on the exchange rate of RMB to U.S. dollars, determined as of a specific date or for a specific period. Changes in the exchange rate will affect the amount of our obligations and the value of our assets in terms of U.S. dollars which may result in an increase or decrease in the amount of our obligations (expressed in dollars) and the value of our assets, including accounts receivable (expressed in dollars).

 

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

 

The following summary is qualified in its entirety by, and should be read in conjunction with, the more detailed information and financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. In addition to this summary, we urge you to read the entire prospectus carefully, especially the risks of investing in our Class A Ordinary Shares, discussed under “Risk Factors,” before deciding whether to buy our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

We are not a Chinese operating company, but rather a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Our Class A Ordinary Shares offered in this prospectus are shares of our Cayman Islands holding company. As a holding company with no material operations of our own, we conduct our operations through our operating entities established in the PRC.

 

We are a leading provider of Spanish tutorial services in China in 2019, according to the Industry Report. Established in 1997 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, we have over twenty years of experience providing educational services that focus on the development of each of our student’s strengths and potential, and the promotion of life-long skills and interests in learning. Prior to the Reorganization, we operated one premium primary private school and one premium secondary private school through two VIEs, in addition to our current operations that include tutorial centers for children and adults, one educational company that partners with high schools to offer language classes to their students, and one logistics company that provides logistic and consulting services. . Since the Reorganization, we no longer operate primary or secondary private schools and no longer use a VIE structure.

 

Recent Development

 

The Reorganization

 

On September 1, 2021, the revised Implementing Regulation became effective. The revised Implementing Regulation prohibits private schools that provide compulsory education to be controlled by means of agreements or to enter into any transactions with any related parties. Until September 2021, the Company had controlled and received economic benefits from the VIEs, Ouhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School, two private schools that provide compulsory education, through a series of contractual arrangements (the “VIE Agreements”) to provide contractual exposure to foreign investment in Chinese-based companies, where Chinese law prohibits direct foreign investment in Chinese operating companies. In order to become compliant with the revised Implementing Regulation, in September 2021, the Company completed a reorganization to divest its operations of Ouhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School. Through the Reorganization, (1) the Company sold all of its shares in Golden Sun Shanghai (the entity that controls Chongwen Middle School through contractual arrangements); and (2) Golden Sun Wenzhou, one of the Company’s subsidiaries, terminated its VIE Agreements with Ouhai Art School. As a result of the foregoing, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries controls or receives economic benefits from any private schools that provide compulsory education, and, as of the date of this prospectus, we believe the Company and its subsidiaries are compliant with the revised Implementing Regulation. All discussions in this prospectus relating to the Company’s operation of Quhai Art School or Chongwen Middle School are provided for historical context only.

 

For the fiscal years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, the revenues generated by the VIEs accounted for approximately 32% and 45% of our total revenue, respectively. The divestures of the VIEs, which represent a strategic shift that has a major effect on the Company’s operations and financial results, triggers discontinued operations accounting in accordance with ASC 205-20-45, and resulted in the VIEs being considered as discontinued operations. The assets and liabilities related to the discontinued operations were retroactively classified as assets/liabilities of discontinued operation in the consolidated financial statements for the periods presented, while results of operations related to the discontinued operations were retroactively reported as income (loss) from discontinued operations in the consolidated financial statements for the periods presented. Please refer to the financial statements included in this registration statement for more details.

 

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Corporate Structure

 

We are a Cayman Islands exempted company incorporated on September 20, 2018. Exempted companies are Cayman Island companies conducting business mainly outside the Cayman Islands and, as such, are exempted from complying with certain provisions of the Companies Act (2021 Revision).

 

The following diagram illustrates our corporate structure upon completion of this offering based on a proposed number of 4,400,000 Class A Ordinary Shares being offered, assuming no exercise of the over-allotment, and 13,000,000 Ordinary Shares, including 8,970,000 Class A Ordinary Shares and 4,030,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, issued and outstanding as of the date of this prospectus. For more details on our corporate history, please refer to “Corporate History and Structure.”

 

 

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Primary and Secondary Education Services Provided by the VIEs prior to the Reorganization

 

Prior to the Reorganization, the VIEs, Ouhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School, operated premium primary and secondary private schools in China. Neither we nor our subsidiaries owned any equity interest in the VIEs. Instead, we controlled and received the economic benefits of the VIEs’ business operations through a series of contractual arrangements, also known as VIE Agreements. Under U.S. GAAP, the Company was deemed to have a controlling financial interest in, and be the primary beneficiary of, the VIEs, for accounting purposes, because pursuant to the VIE Agreements, the operations of the VIEs were solely for the benefit of the Company. As such, we consolidated the financial results of the VIEs in the consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020.

 

Tutorial Services

 

Our China-based subsidiary, Golden Sun Wenzhou, and its subsidiaries, operate tutorial centers in China. For fiscal years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, 90% and 88% of our total revenue (excluding revenues from discontinued operations) was generated from our tutorial centers, respectively. Each of our centers focuses on different groups of targeted students by offering different tutorial programs.

 

Yangfushan Tutorial offers a Gaokao repeater tutorial program to high school students who retake Gaokao. Yangfushan Tutorial is also entrusted to offer high school program education to students of the Central Radio & Television Secondary Specialized School  located in Wenzhou City, China.

 

Hongkou Tutorial offers various English and other foreign language tutorial programs and Gaokao and Zhongkao repeater tutorial programs to individual students as well as companies and other organizations.

 

Jicai Tutorial offers non-English foreign language tutorial programs to individual students, companies and other organizations.

 

Our programs offered to repeaters are specifically targeting the upcoming Gaokao or Zhongkao. As for foreign language tutoring, we offer English, Spanish, German, French and Japanese courses to students who intend to study abroad, individuals seeking jobs that require certain proficiency in these languages, and companies or organizations whose workers need to have certain proficiency in these languages.

 

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In addition to tutorial programs offered by our tutorial centers, Qinshang Education, our China-based subsidiary established in December 2019, partners with high schools to provide non-English foreign language (Spanish and French as secondary language) tutoring services to their students. As of May 2022, Qinshang Education worked with 62 partner-schools serving approximately 2,732 students in seven provinces in China. Revenue from Qinshang Education increased by approximately $4.4 million for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2021, compared to the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020. For the fiscal years 2021 and 2020, revenue generated by Qingshang Education accounted for 31.73%, and 4.74%, respectively, of our total revenue (excluding revenues from the discontinued operations). We believe that more Gaokao participants may choose non-English foreign language as a subject in Gaokao . Due to our strength and reputation in offering non-English foreign language courses to Gaokao participants, we expect Qinshang Education’s business to continue to grow in the near future

 

Revenues from providing tutorial programs at our tutorial centers and language training program, primarily consists of tutorial fees and, in some instances, of room and board fees as well.

 

Logistics and Consulting Services

 

Additionally, since December 2019, we started generating a small percentage of our revenue from providing logistics and consulting services through one logistics company, Lilong Logistics. As of the date of this prospectus, we have entered into service agreement with six customers. For the fiscal years 2021 and 2020, we generated $1,508,930 and $907,508 in revenue from providing logistic and consulting services.

 

Our Geographic Coverage  

 

Our tutorial centers span over four locations across Wenzhou city and Hangzhou city in Zhejiang province, and Shanghai city, China. The following map illustrates the geographic locations of our tutorial centers, as well as high partner-schools that Qinshang Education provides on-site non-English foreign languages services, as of the date of this prospectus:

  

 

  Our tutorial centers
     
  Our partner-schools 

 

Our Past Performance

 

The following discussion of our historical performance does not include revenues from the discontinued operations, which were divested as a result of the Reorganization.

 

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Revenue increased by approximately $7.3 million, or 94%, to approximately $15.0 million for the year ended September 30, 2021 from approximately $7.7 million for the year ended September 30, 2020. The increase in revenue was mainly due to an increase of approximately $6.7 million in tutorial services revenue in fiscal year 2021. Our net income was approximately $2.2 million for the year ended September 30, 2021, representing an increase of approximately $2.1 million from net income of approximately $0.05 million for the year ended September 30, 2020. We had a net income from continuing operation of approximately $1.3 million for the year ended September 30, 2021, and a net loss from continuing operation of approximately $0.1 million for the year ended September 30, 2020. The following table sets forth the breakdown of our revenue and net income for the year ended September 30, 2021 and 2020.

 

   

For the

Fiscal Year
Ended
September 30,
2021

   

For the

Fiscal Year
Ended

September 30,
2020

 
             
Tutorial services   $ 13,518,061     $ 6,827,677  
Logistic and Consulting Services     1,508,930       907,508  
Total revenues     15,026,991       7,735,185  
Net income (loss) from continuing operation     1,306,360       (145,568 )
Net income from discontinued operations     855,040       200,489  
Net income   $ 2,161,400     $ 54,921  

 

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, our revenue decreased to $7.7 million for the year ended September 30, 2020 from $8.4 million for the year ended September 30, 2019. Our net income amounted to approximately $0.05 million and $3.5 million for the year ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. We had a net loss from continuing operation of approximately $0.1 million for the year ended September 30, 2020, and net income from continuing operation of approximately $1.6 million for the year ended September 30, 2019. The following table sets forth the breakdown of our revenue and net income for the years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.

 

    For the
Fiscal Year
Ended
September 30,
2020
    For the
Fiscal Year
Ended
September 30,
2019
 
             
Tutorial services   $ 6,827,677     $ 7,927,196  
Logistic and Consulting Services     907,508       482,868  
Total revenues     7,735,185       8,410,064  
Net income (loss) from continuing operation     (145,568 )     1,600,362  
Net income from discontinued operations     200,489       1,908,897  
Net income   $ 54,921     $ 3,509,259  

 

The PRC Education Industry

 

The education sector in China is fast evolving, highly fragmented and competitive, and is subject to government regulations. Currently, the Chinese education sector is going through a series of reforms and new laws and guidelines have been recently promulgated and released to regulate our industry.

 

Pursuant to the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Promotion of Privately-run Schools amended in 2016 and further amended in 2018, private schools are designated as for-profit and not-for-profit, and the main difference between a for-profit school and a not-for-profit school is whether the sponsor can obtain proceeds from school operation. The sponsor of a not-for-profit school shall not receive proceeds from school operation, and the cash surplus of the school shall be reinvested in the school for its operation. The sponsor of a for-profit private school may receive proceeds from school operation, and the cash surplus of the school shall be disposed of in accordance with the Company Law of the PRC (the “Company Law”) and other relevant laws and administrative regulations. Furthermore, the measures for the collection of fees by not-for-profit schools shall be formulated by the people’s government of various provinces, autonomous regions and centrally-administrated municipalities, and the charging criteria of for-profit schools are subject to market and shall be determined by the schools themselves. For the purposes of this law, among all of our operating entities that are established as “schools”, which require special permit and are subject to the regulations of local education bureaus, Hangzhou Jicai is registered as a for-profit school, while Yangfushan Tutorial and Shanghai Jicai are registered as not-for-profit schools.  To date, local government regulations of Zhejiang and Shanghai, where our not-for-profit schools are located, have generally allowed school sponsors autonomy in school operations, including autonomy in pricing of tuition fees. Accordingly, local governments in Shanghai and Zhejiang have not directly interfered with the determination of pricing of tuition fees of our not-for-profit schools, and we are able to charge fees based on market conditions. As such, to date, the company’s business, operations and revenue have not been affected by the designation of “for-profit” or “not-for-profit”. For fiscal years 2020 and 2021, excluding revenues from the discontinued operations, we generated $1,389,770 and $6,453,117, or 18% and 43% of total revenues, from our “for-profit” entities, and $6,345,415 and $8,573,874, or 82% and 57% of total revenues, from our “not-for-profit” entities, respectively. However, if local governments start to impose restrictions on the charging criteria for the collection of tuition fees by not-for-profit schools, then the revenue of our not-for-profit schools could be negatively affected. See “Risk Factors – Risks Relating to Our Business – Our business and results of operations mainly depend on the level of tuition fees we are able to charge and our ability to maintain and raise tuition fees.”

 

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On September 1, 2021, the revised Implementing Regulation became effective. The Implementing Regulation prohibits private schools that provide compulsory education to be controlled by means of agreements or to enter into any transactions with any related parties. Until September 2021, the Company had controlled and received the economic benefits from two private schools that provide compulsory education through the VIE Agreements to provide contractual exposure to foreign investment in Chinese-based companies where Chinese law prohibits direct foreign investment in the Chinese operating companies. Under U.S. GAAP, the Company was deemed to have a controlling financial interest in, and be the primary beneficiary of, the VIEs for accounting purposes, because pursuant to the VIE Agreements, the operations of the VIEs were solely for the benefit of the Company, and the Company was deemed to be the primary beneficiary of the VIEs for accounting purposes and must consolidate the VIEs. In order to become compliant with the Implementing Regulation, in September 2021, the Company completed the “Reorganization and no longer uses a VIE structure. See “Prospectus Summary – Recent Development - The Reorganization” for more details of the Reorganization. The Reorganization has materially and adversely impacted our operations and future prospects, as these two private schools had represented a significant portion of our business and operations.

 

On July 24, 2021, the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council jointly issued the Guideline to Significantly Reduce The Excessive Burden of Homework and After-school Tutoring for Students in Primary and Middle Schools the (“Guideline”). The Guideline contains various requirements and restrictions related to after school tutoring services that teach academic subjects in compulsory education (“Academic AST Institutions”), including a requirement to register as a non-profit school, a prohibition on foreign ownership, a prohibition for listed companies on raising capital to invest in Academic AST Institutions, limitations as to when tutoring services on academic subjects may be provided, and fee standards. On July 28, 2021, to further clarify the scope of academic subjects in China’s compulsory education system, the PRC Ministry of Education issued a notice (the “Notice”). The Notice specifies that academic subjects include the following courses provided in accordance with the learning content of the national curriculum standards: Morality and Law, Chinese Language, History, Geography, Mathematics, foreign languages (English, Japanese, and Russian), Physics, Chemistry and Biology. In accordance with the Guideline and the Notice, the Company has determined that its tutorial centers do not presently provide academic subjects in China’s compulsory education system and, therefore, such tutorial centers are not subject to the above requirements and restrictions on Academic AST Institutions. (See “Regulations - Regulations Related to Private Education – 9. Guideline to Significantly Reduce the Excessive Burden of Homework and After-school Tutoring for Students in Primary and Middle Schools”). As of the date of this prospectus, the Guideline has not impacted the Company’s ability to conduct its business, accept foreign investments, or list on a U.S. or other foreign exchange; however, the Guideline may be expanded in the future to cover any aspect of our business or operations, which could materially and adversely impact our business and financial outlook.

 

For further discussion, please see “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Our Business - New legislation or changes in the PRC regulatory requirements regarding private education have affected, and may further affect, our business operations and prospects materially and adversely.”  

 

Approvals from the PRC Authorities to Issue Our Ordinary Shares to Foreign Investors 

 

As of the date of this prospectus, our PRC counsel has advised us that we or our PRC subsidiaries (1) are not required to obtain approvals from any PRC authorities to issue our Ordinary Shares to foreign investors, (2) are not subject to approval requirements from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (the “CSRC”), the CAC, or any other entity to approve our operations, and (3) have not been denied such permissions by any PRC authorities. Nevertheless, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the “Opinions on Severely Cracking Down on Illegal Securities Activities According to Law,” or the “Opinions”, which were made available to the public on July 6, 2021. The Opinions emphasized the need to strengthen the administration over illegal securities activities, and the need to strengthen the supervision over overseas listings by Chinese companies.

 

The Cybersecurity Review Measures, which became effective on February 15, 2022, provides that, in addition to critical information infrastructure operators (“CIIOs”) that intend to purchase Internet products and services, data processing operators engaging in data processing activities that affect or may affect national security must be subject to cybersecurity review by the Cybersecurity Review Office of the PRC. According to the Cybersecurity Review Measures, a cybersecurity review assesses potential national security risks that may be brought about by any procurement, data processing, or overseas listing. The Cybersecurity Review Measures further requires that CIIOs and data processing operators that possess personal data of at least one million users must apply for a review by the Cybersecurity Review Office of the PRC before conducting listings in foreign countries. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not received any notice from any authorities identifying any of our PRC subsidiaries as a CIIOs or requiring us to go through cybersecurity review or network data security review by the CAC. We believe our PRC operations will not be subject to cybersecurity review by the CAC for this offering, because our PRC subsidiaries are not CIIOs or data processing operators with personal information of more than 1 million users. There remains uncertainty, however, as to how the Cybersecurity Review Measures will be interpreted or implemented and whether the PRC regulatory agencies, including the CAC, may adopt new laws, regulations, rules, or detailed implementation and interpretation related to the Cybersecurity Review Measures. For further details, see “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC - Recent greater oversight by the CAC over data security, particularly for companies seeking to list on a foreign exchange, could adversely impact our business and our proposed offering.

 

On December 24, 2021, the CSRC released the "Regulations of the State Council on the Administration of the Overseas Issuance and Listing of Securities by Domestic Enterprises (Draft for Comment)" and "Administrative Measures for the Recordation of Overseas Issuance and Listing of Securities by Domestic Enterprises (Draft for Comment)" for public opinion, and if they become law, will require Chinese companies applying to list on overseas exchanges to report and file certain documents with the CSRC within three working days after submitting listing applications and subsequent amendments. Given the current PRC regulatory environment, it is uncertain whether we or our PRC subsidiaries will be required to obtain approvals from the PRC government to offer securities to foreign investors in the future, and whether we would be able to obtain such approvals. If we are unable to obtain such approvals if required in the future, or inadvertently conclude that such approvals are not required then the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares may depreciate significantly or become worthless.  See “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC - The Chinese government exerts substantial influence over the manner in which we must conduct our business and may intervene or influence our operations at any time, which actions have recently resulted in a material change in our operations, as we had to divest our operation of Quhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School, and which actions could further impact our operations materially and adversely, and significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares to significantly decline or be worthless

 

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Approvals from the PRC Authorities to Conduct Our Operations

 

As of the date of this prospectus, we and our PRC subsidiaries have received from the PRC authorities all requisite licenses, permissions, or approvals that are required for conducting our operations in China, such as business licenses, private school operation permits, certificates of registration for a privately operated non-enterprise entity for not-for-profit private schools, certificates of registration for-profit private schools. However, it is uncertain whether we or our PRC subsidiaries will be required to obtain additional approvals, licenses, or permits in connection with our business operations pursuant to evolving PRC laws and regulations, and whether we would be able to obtain and renew such approvals on a timely basis or at all. Failing to do so could result in a material change in our operations, and the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares could depreciate significantly or become worthless. See “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Our Business - We are subject to various approvals, licenses, permits, registrations and filings for our education and other services in the PRC.

 

Dividends and Distributions

 

Under the Cayman Islands law, a Cayman Islands company may pay a dividend on its shares out of either profit or share premium amount, provided that in no circumstances may a dividend be paid if this would result in the company being unable to pay its debts due in the ordinary course of business. As of the date of this prospectus, (1) no cash transfer or transfer of other assets have occurred among the Company, its subsidiaries, and the former VIEs, (2) no dividends or distributions have been made by a subsidiary or the former VIEs, and (3) the Company has not made any dividends or distributions to U.S. investors. We intend to keep any future earnings to finance the expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate that any cash dividends will be paid in the foreseeable future, or any funds will be transferred from one entity to another. As such, we have not installed any cash management policies that dictate how funds are transferred among Golden Sun Cayman, its subsidiaries, or investors.

 

Our PRC operating entities receive substantially all of our revenue in RMB. Under our current corporate structure, to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have, Golden Sun Cayman may rely on dividend payments from its PRC operating subsidiaries, Golden Sun Wenzhou and its subsidiaries, which may make distribution of such payments to Golden Sun Hong Kong and then to Golden Sun Cayman as dividends.

 

Under existing PRC foreign exchange regulations, payment of current account items, such as profit distributions and trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, can be made in foreign currencies without prior approval from SAFE by complying with certain procedural requirements. Therefore, our PRC subsidiaries are able to pay dividends in foreign currencies to us without prior approval from SAFE, subject to the condition that the remittance of such dividends outside of the PRC complies with certain procedures under PRC foreign exchange regulations, such as the overseas investment registrations by our shareholders or the ultimate shareholders of our corporate shareholders who are PRC residents. Approval from or registration with appropriate government authorities is, however, required where the RMB is to be converted into foreign currency and remitted out of China to pay capital expenses such as the repayment of loans denominated in foreign currencies. The PRC government may also at its discretion restrict access in the future to foreign currencies for current account transactions.

 

Current PRC regulations permit our PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to the Company only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with Chinese accounting standards and regulations. In addition, each of our subsidiaries in China is required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund a statutory reserve until such reserve reaches 50% of its registered capital. Each such entity in China is also required to further set aside a portion of its after-tax profits to fund the employee welfare fund, although the amount to be set aside, if any, is determined at the discretion of its board of directors. Although the statutory reserves can be used, among other ways, to increase the registered capital and eliminate future losses in excess of retained earnings of the respective companies, the reserve funds are not distributable as cash dividends except in the event of liquidation.

 

Cash dividends, if any, on our Class A Ordinary Shares will be paid in U.S. dollars. If we are considered a PRC tax resident enterprise for tax purposes, any dividends we pay to our overseas shareholders may be regarded as China-sourced income and as a result may be subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of up to 10.0%.  Pursuant to the Arrangement between Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and Tax Evasion on Income, or the Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement, the 10% withholding tax rate may be lowered to 5% if a Hong Kong resident enterprise owns no less than 25% of a PRC project. The 5% withholding tax rate, however, does not automatically apply and certain requirements must be satisfied, including without limitation that (a) the Hong Kong project must be the beneficial owner of the relevant dividends; and (b) the Hong Kong project must directly hold no less than 25% share ownership in the PRC project during the 12 consecutive months preceding its receipt of the dividends. In current practice, a Hong Kong project must obtain a tax resident certificate from the Hong Kong tax authority to apply for the 5% lower PRC withholding tax rate. As the Hong Kong tax authority will issue such a tax resident certificate on a case-by-case basis, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority and enjoy the preferential withholding tax rate of 5% under the Double Taxation Arrangement with respect to any dividends paid by Golden Sun Wenzhou to its immediate holding company, Golden Sun Hong Kong. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not applied for the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority. Golden Sun Hong Kong intends to apply for the tax resident certificate if and when Golden Sun Wenzhou plans to declare and pay dividends to Golden Sun Hong Kong.

 

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PCAOB’s Determinations on Public Accounting Firms Headquartered in Mainland China and in Hong Kong

 

Our Class A Ordinary Shares may be delisted under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act if the PCAOB is unable to inspect our auditors for three consecutive years beginning in 2021. Furthermore, on June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, which, if signed into law, would decrease the number of non-inspection years for foreign companies to comply with the PCAOB audits from three years to two years, thus reducing the time period before their securities may be prohibited from trading or delisted. On December 16, 2021, the PCAOB issued a report on its determinations that it is unable to inspect or investigate completely PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in mainland China and in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC, because of positions taken by PRC authorities in those jurisdictions (the “Determination”). Our auditor, Friedman LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm that issues the audit report included elsewhere in this prospectus, is a PCAOB-registered public accounting firm headquartered in New York. Our auditor is subject to laws in the United States pursuant to which the PCAOB conducts regular inspections to assess auditor’s compliance with the applicable professional standards, and has been inspected by the PCAOB on a regular basis, with the last inspection in June 2018. As such, as of the date of this prospectus, our auditor is not subject to the Determinations and our offering is not affected by the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and related regulations. However, there is a risk that our auditor cannot be inspected by the PCAOB in the future, and if the PCAOB determines that it cannot inspect or fully investigate our auditors for three consecutive years beginning in 2021, our securities will be prohibited from trading on a national exchange or over-the-counter under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, and, as a result, Nasdaq may determine to delist our securities, which may cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless. See “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC - The newly enacted Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act passed by the U.S. Senate, all call for additional and more stringent criteria to be applied to emerging market companies upon assessing the qualification of their auditors, especially the non-U.S. auditors who are not inspected by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board of the United States. These developments could add uncertainties to our offering and listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and Nasdaq may determine to delist our securities if the PCAOB determines that it cannot inspect or fully investigate our auditor.

 

Competitive Strengths

 

We believe that the following competitive strengths have contributed to our success and differentiated us from our competitors:

 

  Unique niche in non-English foreign language education with significant market coverage;

 

  Well-positioned in the Gaokao repeater tutoring market in Wenhzou city;

 

  Consistent high-quality education with excellent teachers; and

 

  Strong management team with rich education experience.

 

Growth Strategies

 

Our goal is to continuously promote and improve our position as a premium private education service provider in the Yangtze River Delta Region and a leading non-English foreign language, especially Spanish, tutoring services provider in the PRC. Specifically, we plan to implement the following strategies:

 

  Continue to build our brand and reputation;

 

  Significantly expand our network of partner-schools nationwide to offer Spanish as second foreign language program; and

 

  Expand our tutorial centers through various measures and maximize synergies through integration of these entities.

 

Summary of Risk Factors

 

We are a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, investing in our Class A Ordinary Shares involves significant risks. All of our revenues were generated by our PRC operating entities. You should carefully consider all of the information in this prospectus before making an investment in our Class A Ordinary Shares. Below please find a summary of the principal risks we face, organized under relevant headings. These risks are discussed more fully in the section titled “Risk factors.”

 

Risks Relating to Our Business

 

  We face intense competition in the PRC education sector, which could lead to adverse pricing pressure, reduced operating margins, loss of market share, departure of qualified teachers and increasing capital expenditure (see page 17 of this prospectus).

 

  New legislation or changes in the PRC regulatory requirements regarding private education have affected, and may further affect, our business operations and prospects materially and adversely (see page 23 of this prospectus).

 

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  Our business and results of operations mainly depend on the level of tuition fees we are able to charge and our ability to maintain and raise tuition fees (see page 17 of this prospectus). 

 

  We face risks related to health epidemics, natural disasters, or terrorist attacks in China (see page 18 of this prospectus).

 

  Our business is heavily dependent on the reputation of our tutorial services (see page 18 of this prospectus).

 

  We may fail to continue to attract and retain students in our tutorial centers (see page 19 of this prospectus).

 

  If we are not able to continue to secure agreements with some or all of our existing partner-schools, or secure new agreements with additional partner-schools for our non-English foreign language program, our results of operations and financial condition may be materially and adversely affected (see page 20 of this prospectus).

 

  We may fail to continue to attract and retain teachers and we may not be able to maintain consistent teaching quality throughout our schools and tutorial centers (see page 20 of this prospectus).

 

Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC

 

  You may experience difficulties in effecting service of legal process, enforcing foreign judgments, or bringing actions in China against us or our management named in the prospectus based on foreign laws. It may also be difficult for you or overseas regulators to conduct investigations or collect evidence within China (see page 29 of this prospectus).

 

  Changes in China’s economic, political, or social conditions or government policies could have a material adverse effect on our business and operations (see page 26 of this prospectus).

 

  PRC regulations relating to offshore investment activities by PRC residents may subject our PRC resident beneficial owners or our PRC subsidiaries to liability or penalties, limit our ability to inject capital into our PRC subsidiaries, limit our PRC subsidiaries’ ability to increase their registered capital or distribute profits to us, or may otherwise adversely affect us (see page 31 of this prospectus).

 

  The Chinese government exerts substantial influence over the manner in which we must conduct our business and may intervene or influence our operations at any time, which actions have recently resulted in a material change in our operations, as we had to divest our operation of Quhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School, and which actions could further impact our operations materially and adversely, and significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares to significantly decline or be worthless (see page 28 of this prospectus).

 

  There are uncertainties regarding the enforcement of laws and rules and regulations in China, which can change quickly with little advance notice, and there is a risk that the Chinese government may exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas, which changes could materially and adversely affect our business and impede hinder our ability to offer or continue our operations, and cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless (see page 27 of this prospectus).

 

  There are uncertainties under the PRC Securities Law relating to the procedures and requisite timing for the U.S. securities regulatory agencies to conduct investigations and collect evidence within the territory of the PRC (see page 34 of this prospectus).

 

  The newly enacted Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act passed by the U.S. Senate, all call for additional and more stringent criteria to be applied to emerging market companies upon assessing the qualification of their auditors, especially the non-U.S. auditors who are not inspected by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board of the United States (the “PCAOB”). These developments could add uncertainties to our offering and listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and Nasdaq may determine to delist our securities if the PCAOB determines that it cannot inspect or fully investigate our auditor (see page 29 of this prospectus).

 

  Recent greater oversight by the CAC over data security, particularly for companies seeking to list on a foreign exchange, could adversely impact our business and proposed offering (see page 28 of this prospectus).

 

 

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  Increases in labor costs in the PRC may adversely affect our business and our profitability (see page 30 of this prospectus).
     
  Our PRC Affiliated Entities did not make adequate social insurance and housing fund contributions for all employees as required by PRC regulations previously, which may subject us to penalties (see page 31 of this prospectus).
     
  We may rely on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by our PRC subsidiaries, through our Hong Kong subsidiaries, to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have, and any limitation on the ability of our PRC subsidiaries to make payments to us could have a material and adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business (see page 32 of this prospectus).
     
  PRC regulation of parent/subsidiary loans and direct investment by offshore holding companies to PRC entities may delay or prevent us from using the proceeds of this offering to make loans or additional capital contributions to our PRC operating subsidiary, which could materially and adversely affect our liquidity and our ability to fund and expand our business (see page 33 of this prospectus).
     
  Fluctuations in exchange rates could have a material and adverse effect on our results of operations and the value of your investment (see page 34 of this prospectus).
     
  Under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, we may be classified as a PRC “resident enterprise” for PRC enterprise income tax purposes. Such classification would likely result in unfavorable tax consequences to us and our non-PRC shareholders and have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and the value of your investment (see page 35 of this prospectus).
     
 

We face uncertainty with respect to indirect transfers of equity interests in PRC resident enterprises by their non-PRC holding companies (see page 36 of this prospectus).  

 

  To the extent cash or assets of our business, or of our PRC or Hong Kong subsidiaries, is in the PRC or Hong Kong, such cash or assets may not be available to fund operations or for other use outside of the PRC or Hong Kong, due to interventions in or the imposition of restrictions and limitations by the PRC government to the transfer of cash or assets.

 

  Our PRC subsidiaries are subject to restrictions on paying dividends or making other payments to us, which may have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business (see page 37 of this prospectus).
     
 

Governmental control of currency conversion may affect the value of your investment and our payment of dividends (see page 37 of this prospectus).

 

 

There are significant uncertainties under the EIT Law relating to the withholding tax liabilities of Golden Sun Wenzhou, and dividends payable by Golden Sun Wenzhou to our offshore subsidiaries may not qualify to enjoy certain treaty benefits (see page 38 of this prospectus).

 

 

The disclosures in our reports and other filings with the SEC and our other public pronouncements are not subject to the scrutiny of any regulatory bodies in the PRC (see page 39 of this prospectus).

 

 

The approval of the CSRC may be required in connection with this offering under a regulation adopted in August 2006, and, if required, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain such approval, in which case we may face sanctions by the CSRC or other PRC regulatory agencies for failure to seek the CSRC approval for this offering (see page 39 of this prospectus).

 

 

The M&A Rules and certain other PRC regulations establish complex procedures for some acquisitions of Chinese companies by foreign investors, which could make it more difficult for us to pursue growth through acquisitions in China (see page 40 of this prospectus)

 

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Risks Relating to this Offering and the Trading Market

 

  There has been no public market for our Class A Ordinary Shares prior to this offering, and you may not be able to resell our Class A Ordinary Shares at or above the price you pay for them, or at all (see page 40 of this prospectus).

 

  You will experience immediate and substantial dilution in the net tangible book value of Class A Ordinary Shares purchased (see page 40 of this prospectus).

 

  We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future (see page 43 of this prospectus).

 

  Because we are a foreign private issuer and are exempt from certain Nasdaq corporate governance standards applicable to U.S. issuers, you will have less protection than you would have if we were a domestic issuer (see page 44 of this prospectus).

 

Corporate Information

 

Our principal executive offices are located at Profit Huiyin Square North Building, Huashan 2018, Unit 1001, Xuhui District, Shanghai, PRC, and our phone number is +86-0577-56765303. Our registered office in the Cayman Islands is located at Vistra (Cayman) Limited, P.O. Box 31119 Grand Pavilion, Hibiscus Way, 802 West Bay Road, Grand Cayman, KY1 – 1205, Cayman Islands, and the phone number of our registered office is +1-345-769 9372. Our agent for service is Cogency Global Inc. located at 122 East 42nd Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10168. We maintain a corporate website at http://www.jtyjyjt.com. The information contained in, or accessible from, our website or any other website does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

 

Implications of Our Being an “Emerging Growth Company”

 

As a company with less than $1.07 billion in revenue during our last fiscal year, we qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the “JOBS Act.” An “emerging growth company” may take advantage of reduced reporting requirements that are otherwise applicable to larger public companies. In particular, as an emerging growth company, we:

 

  may present only two years of audited financial statements and only two years of related Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, or “MD&A;”
     
  are not required to provide a detailed narrative disclosure discussing our compensation principles, objectives and elements and analyzing how those elements fit with our principles and objectives, which is commonly referred to as “compensation discussion and analysis”;
     
  are not required to obtain an attestation and report from our auditors on our management’s assessment of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002;
     
  are not required to obtain a non-binding advisory vote from our shareholders on executive compensation or golden parachute arrangements (commonly referred to as the “say-on-pay,” “say-on frequency” and “say-on-golden-parachute” votes);
     
  are exempt from certain executive compensation disclosure provisions requiring a pay-for-performance graph and CEO pay ratio disclosure;

 

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  are eligible to claim longer phase-in periods for the adoption of new or revised financial accounting standards under §107 of the JOBS Act; and
     
  will not be required to conduct an evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting until our second annual report on Form 20-F following the effectiveness of our initial public offering.

 

We intend to take advantage of all of these reduced reporting requirements and exemptions, including the longer phase-in periods for the adoption of new or revised financial accounting standards under §107 of the JOBS Act. Our election to use the phase-in periods may make it difficult to compare our financial statements to those of non-emerging growth companies and other emerging growth companies that have opted out of the phase-in periods under §107 of the JOBS Act.

 

Under the JOBS Act, we may take advantage of the above-described reduced reporting requirements and exemptions until we no longer meet the definition of an emerging growth company. The JOBS Act provides that we would cease to be an “emerging growth company” at the end of the fiscal year in which the fifth anniversary of our initial sale of common equity pursuant to a registration statement declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) occurred, if we have more than $1.07 billion in annual revenue, have more than $700 million in market value of our Ordinary Share held by non-affiliates, or issue more than $1 billion in principal amount of non-convertible debt over a three-year period.

 

Foreign Private Issuer Status

 

We are a foreign private issuer within the meaning of the rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). As such, we are exempt from certain provisions applicable to United States domestic public companies. For example:

 

  we are not required to provide as many Exchange Act reports, or as frequently, as a domestic public company;
     
  for interim reporting, we are permitted to comply solely with our home country requirements, which are less rigorous than the rules that apply to domestic public companies;
     
  we are not required to provide the same level of disclosure on certain issues, such as executive compensation;
     
  we are exempt from provisions of Regulation FD aimed at preventing issuers from making selective disclosures of material information;
     
  we are not required to comply with the sections of the Exchange Act regulating the solicitation of proxies, consents, or authorizations in respect of a security registered under the Exchange Act; and
     
  we are not required to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act requiring insiders to file public reports of their share ownership and trading activities and establishing insider liability for profits realized from any “short-swing” trading transaction.

 

Controlled Company

 

Upon completion of this offering, our CEO, Xueyuan Weng, will beneficially own approximately 60% of the aggregate voting power of our outstanding Ordinary Shares assuming no exercise of the over-allotment option, or 59% assuming full exercise of the over-allotment option. As a result, we will be deemed a “controlled company” for the purpose of the Nasdaq listing rules. As a controlled company, we are permitted to elect to rely on certain exemptions from the obligations to comply with certain corporate governance requirements, including:

 

  the requirement that our director nominees be selected or recommended solely by independent directors; and
     
  the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee and a compensation committee that are composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the purposes and responsibilities of the committees.

 

Although we do not intend to rely on the controlled company exemptions under the Nasdaq listing rules, we could elect to rely on these exemptions in the future, and if so, you would not have the same protection afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to all of the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq.

 

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Selected Condensed Consolidated Financial Schedule of Golden Sun Cayman and Its Subsidiaries and VIEs

 

The following disclosure includes historic references to the VIEs that have since been divested through the Reorganization; past financial performance should not, therefore, be relied upon for future financial forecasts. The following tables present selected condensed consolidated financial data of Golden Sun Cayman and its subsidiaries and VIEs for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, and balance sheet data as of September 30, 2021 and 2020, which have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements for those periods. Golden Sun Cayman records its investments in its subsidiaries under the equity method of accounting. Such investments are presented in the selected condensed consolidated balance sheets of Golden Sun Cayman as “Investments in subsidiaries and VIEs” and the profit of the subsidiaries is presented as “Income for equity method investment” in the selected condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income.

 

SELECTED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

 

    For the Year Ended September 30, 2021  
    Golden Sun Cayman     Golden Sun Hong Kong     WFOE     PRC Subsidiaries     Eliminations     Continuing operations     Discontinued Operations (VIEs)     Consolidated  
                                                 
Revenues   $ -     $ -     $ 340,959     $

15,026,991

    $ (340,959 )   $ 15,026,991     $ (a)     $ 15,026,991  
Cost of revenues     -       -       178       6,210,494       -       6,210,672       (a)       6,210,672  
Gross profit     -       -       340,781       8,816,497      

(340,959

)     8,816,319       (a)       8,816,319  
Operating expenses     -       -       905,144      

6,027,853

      (68,445 )     6,864,552       (a)       6,864,552  
Income (loss) from operations     -       -       (564,363 )     2,788,644       (272,514 )     1,951,767       (a)       1,951,767  
Income from equity method investment     1,978,553       -       1,958,639       -       (3,937,192 )     -       -       -  
Income from VIEs     -       716,589       138,451       -       (855,040 )     -       -       -  
Net income from continuing operations     -       -       -       -       -       1,306,360       -       1,306,360  
Net income from discontinued operations     -       -       -       -       -       -       855,040       855,040  
Net income     1,978,553       716,589       1,534,478       2,141,486       (5,064,746 )     1,306,360       855,040       2,161,400  
Less: Net income attributable to non-controlling interests     -       -       -       182,847       -       182,847       -       182,847  
Net income attributable to the company     1,978,553       716,589       1,534,478       1,958,639       (5,064,746 )     1,123,513       855,040       1,978,553  

 

    For the Year Ended September 30, 2020  
    Golden Sun Cayman     Golden Sun Hong Kong     WFOE     PRC Subsidiaries     Eliminations     Continuing operations     Discontinued Operations (VIEs)     Consolidated  
                                                 
Revenues   $ -     $ -     $ 228,598     $ 7,506,587     $ -     $ 7,735,185      $ (a)     $ 7,735,185  
Cost of revenues     -       -       134,326       3,941,065       -       4,075,391       (a)       4,075,391  
Gross profit     -       -       94,272       3,565,522       -       3,659,794       (a)       3,659,794  
Operating expenses     -       -       371,043       3,233,099       -       3,604,142       (a)       3,604,142  
Income (loss) from operations     -       -       (276,771 )     332,423       -       55,652       (a)       55,652  
Income for equity method investment     42,011       -       131,796       -       (173,807 )     -       -       -  
Income (loss) from VIEs     -       550,977       (350,488 )     -       (200,489 )     -       -       -  
Net income (loss) from continuing operations     -       -       -       -       -       (145,568 )     -       (145,568 )
Net income from discontinued operations     -       -       -       -       -       -       200,489       200,489  
Net income (loss)     42,011       550,977       (508,966 )     144,706       (374,296 )     (145,568 )     200,489       54,921  
Less: Net income attributable to non-controlling interests     -       -       -       12,910       -       12,910       -       12,910  
Net income (loss) attributable to the company     42,011       550,977       (508,966 )     131,796       (374,296 )     (158,478 )     200,489       42,011  

 

(a) For consolidation purpose, revenues, cost of revenues, gross profit, operating expenses and income from operations for Discontinued Operations (VIEs) omitted, since these numbers were not consolidated into the above mentioned line items in Consolidated Statement Of Income And Comprehensive (Loss) Income, instead, they were included in “Net income from discontinued operations”.

 

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SELECTED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

    As of September 30, 2021  
    Golden Sun
Cayman
    Golden Sun
Hong Kong
    WFOE    

PRC

Subsidiaries

    Eliminations     Continuing
operations
    Discontinued
Operations (VIEs)
    Consolidated
Total
 
Cash   $ -     $      -     $ 17,597     $ 1,175,183     $ -     $ 1,192,780     $          -     $ 1,192,780  
Total current assets     12,845       -       174,612       5,476,320       (135,174 )     5,528,603       -       5,528,603  
Investments in subsidiaries and VIEs     (7,566,778 )     -       (7,911,298 )     -       15,478,076       -       -       -  
Total non-current assets     (7,566,778 )     -       (7,346,205 )     557,669       15,462,591       1,107,277       -       1,107,277  
Total assets     (7,553,933 )     -       (7,171,593 )     6,033,989       15,327,417       6,635,880       -       6,635,880  
Total liabilities     -       -       1,649,847       9,670,674       2,955,841       14,276,362       -       14,276,362  
Total deficit     (7,553,933 )     -       (8,821,440 )     (3,636,685 )     12,371,576       (7,640,482 )     -       (7,640,482 )
Total liabilities and deficit   $ (7,553,933 )   $ -     $ (7,171,593 )   $ 6,033,989     $ 15,327,417     $ 6,635,880     $ -     $ 6,635,880  

 

    As of September, 30, 2020  
    Golden Sun
Cayman
    Golden Sun
Hong Kong
    WFOE    

PRC

Subsidiaries

    Eliminations     Continuing
operations
    Discontinued
Operations (VIEs)
    Consolidated
Total
 
Cash   $ -     $ -     $ 418     $ 1,149,124     $ -     $ 1,149,542     $ (b)     $ 1,149,542  
Total current assets of discontinued operation     -       -       -       -       -       -       2,352,590       2,352,590  
Total current assets     -       -       161,810       2,669,542       (47,036 )     2,784,316       2,352,590       5,136,906  
Investments in subsidiaries and VIEs     (7,115,156 )     607,522       (7,654,154 )     -       14,161,788       -       -       -  
Total non-current assets of discontinued operation     -       -       -       -       -       -       11,479,473       11,479,473  
Total non-current assets     (7,115,156 )     607,522       (7,347,452 )     537,355       14,147,088       829,357       11,479,473       12,308,830  
Total assets     (7,115,156 )     607,522       (7,185,642 )     3,206,897       14,100,052       3,613,673       13,832,063       17,445,736  
Total liabilities of discontinued operation     -       -       -       -       -       -       12,802,490       12,802,490  
Total liabilities     -       -       794,143       6,735,972       4,485,394       12,015,509       12,802,490       24,817,999  
Total deficit     (7,115,156 )     607,522       (7,979,785 )     (3,529,075 )     9,614,658       (8,401,836 )     1,029,573       (7,372,263 )
Total liabilities and deficit   $ (7,115,156 )   $ 607,522     $ (7,185,642 )   $ 3,206,897     $ 14,100,052     $ 3,613,673     $ 13,832,063     $ 17,445,736  

 

(b) For consolidation purpose, cash balance of $2,060,469 from Discontinued Operations (VIEs) omitted, since the cash balance was not consolidated into the line item in Consolidated Balance Sheets, instead, it was included in “Total current assets of discontinued operation”.

 

INTER-COMPANY BALANCES

 

    As of September 30, 2021  
    Golden Sun
Cayman
    Golden Sun
Hong Kong
    WFOE    

PRC

Subsidiaries

    Discontinued
Operations (VIEs)
    Eliminations     Consolidated
Total
 
Due from WOFE   $       -     $       -     $            $ 122,329     $          -     $ (122,329 )   $          -  
Due to PRC Subsidiaries     -       -       (122,329 )     -       -       122,329       -  
Total   $ -     $ -     $ (122,329 )   $ 122,329     $ -     $ -     $ -  

 

    As of September 30, 2020  
    Golden Sun
Cayman
    Golden Sun
Hong Kong
    WFOE    

PRC

Subsidiaries

    Discontinued
Operations (VIEs)
    Eliminations     Consolidated
Total
 
Due from WFOE   $      -     $      -     $   -     $ -     $ 14,699     $ (14,699 )   $        -  
Due from VIEs     -       -               61,735       -       (61,735 )     -  
Due to VIEs     -       -       (14,699 )     -       -       14,699       -  
Due to PRC Subsidiaries     -       -       -       -       (61,735 )     61,735       -  
Total   $ -     $ -     $ (14,699 )   $ 61,735     $ (47,036 )   $ -     $ -  

 

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SELECTED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

          For the Year Ended September 30, 2021  
    Golden Sun
Cayman
    Golden Sun
Hong Kong
    WFOE    

PRC

Subsidiaries

    Discontinued
Operations
(VIEs)
    Eliminations     Consolidated
Total
 
Net cash provided by operating activities           -            -       (433,380 )     (367,674 )     832,947       -       31,893  
Net cash used in investing activities     -       -       (1,817 )     (89,328 )     (121,471 )     -       (212,616 )
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities     -       -       452,218       5,230,447       (7,686,234 )     -       (2,003,569 )
                                                         
Inter-company cash transactions:                                                        
Payment for service to WFOE     -       -       -       (39,941 )     (290,600 )     (330,541 )     -  
AR collection from VIEs     -       -       290,600       -       -       290,600       -  
AR collection from PRC
Subsidiaries
    -       -       39,941       -       -       39,941       -  
Loan to PRC Subsidiaries     -       -       -       -       (199,708 )     199,708       -  
Loan to WFOE     -       -       -       (121,361 )     -       121,361       -  
Loan from VIEs     -       -       -       199,708       -       (199,708 )        
Loan repayment to VIEs     -       -       (15,362 )     -       -       15,362          
Loan from PRC Subsidiaries             -       121,361       -       -       (121,361 )        
Loan repayment from WFOE     -       -       -       -       15,362       (15,362 )        

 

    Golden Sun
Cayman
   

Golden Sun

Hong Kong

    WFOE    

PRC

Subsidiaries

    Discontinued
Operations
(VIEs)
    Eliminations     Consolidated
Total
 
Net cash provided by operating activities   $        -     $        -     $ (256,899 )   $ 740,974     $ 1,024,501     $ -     $ 1,508,576  
Net cash used in investing activities     -       -       (15,497 )     (319,583 )     (1,259,430 )     14,270       (1,580,240 )
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities     -       -       271,327       (451,852 )     215,442       (14,270 )     20,647  
                                                         
Inter-company cash transactions:                                                        
Loan to VIEs     -       -       -       (59,962 )     -       59,962       -  
Loan repayment to PRC Subsidiaries     -       -       -       -       (28 )     28       -  
Loan to WFOE     -       -       -       -       (14,270 )     14,270       -  
Loan from VIEs     -       -       14,270       -       -       (14,270 )     -  
Loan from WFOE     -       -       -       -       59,962       (59,962 )     -  
Loan repayment from VIEs     -       -       -       28       -       (28 )     -  
Capital contribution to PRC Subsidiaries     -       -       (14,270 )     -       -       14,270       -  
Capital contribution from WFOE   $ -     $ -     $     $ 14,270     $ -     $ (14,270 )   $ -  

  

The roll forward schedule for Investment in subsidiaries and VIEs

 

Investment in subsidiaries and VIEs as of September 30, 2019  $(6,822,979)
Income for equity investments for the year ended September 30, 2020   42,011 
Other comprehensive income   (334,188)
Investment in subsidiaries and VIEs as of September 30, 2020   (7,115,156)
      
Income for equity investments for the year ended September 30, 2021   1,978,553 
Other comprehensive income   (396,536)
Deemed distribution to shareholders   (2,020,794)
Due from related party for disposal of VIEs   (12,845)
Investment in subsidiaries and VIEs as of September 30, 2021  $(7,566,778)

 

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THE OFFERING

 

Class A Ordinary Shares offered by us   4,400,000 Class A Ordinary Shares
     
Price per Class A Ordinary Share   We currently estimate that the initial public offering price will be in the range of $4 to $5 per Class A Ordinary Share.
     
Ordinary Shares outstanding prior to completion of this offering   8,970,000 Class A Ordinary Shares; 4,030,000 Class B Ordinary Shares
     
Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after this offering  

17,400,000 Ordinary Shares including (i) 13,370,000 Class A Ordinary Shares and (ii) 4,030,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, assuming no exercise of the Underwriter’s over-allotment option and excluding 330,000 Class A Ordinary Shares underlying the Underwriter’s Warrants

 

18,060,000 Ordinary Shares including (i) 14,030,000 Class A Ordinary Shares and (ii) 4,030,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, assuming full exercise of the Underwriter’s over-allotment option and excluding 379,500 Class A Ordinary Shares underlying the Underwriter’s Warrants

     
Voting Rights   

Class A Ordinary Shares are entitled to one (1) vote per share.

 

Class B Ordinary Shares are entitled to five (5) votes per share.

 

Class A and Class B shareholders will vote together as a single class, unless otherwise required by law or our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association. Our CEO, Mr. Xueyuan Weng, is the sole holder of our Class B Ordinary Shares and will hold 59% to 60% of the total votes, depending on whether the Underwriter exercises its over-allotment option or not, for our issued and outstanding share capital following the completion of this offering and will have the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our shareholders for approval, including the election of our directors and the approval of change in control transactions, with the exception of any special resolutions, as such term is defined in the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company, that are required to be passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds of shareholders who are eligible to vote. See the sections titled “Principal Shareholders” and “Description of Share Capital” for additional information.

     

Over-Allotment Option

  We have granted to the Underwriter an option, exercisable within 45 days from the closing of this offering, to purchase up to an additional 15% of the total number of the Class A Ordinary Shares offered by us at the initial public offering price, less underwriting discounts.
   
Underwriter’s Warrants   We have agreed to issue to the Underwriter share purchase warrants, exercisable from the date of commencement of sales of this offering for a period of five years after such date, to purchase Class A Ordinary Shares equal to 7.5% of the total number of Class A Ordinary Shares sold in this offering, exercisable at a per share price equal to 130% of the public offering price.
     
Listing   We have applied to have our Class A Ordinary Shares listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
     
Nasdaq Capital Market symbol   “GSUN” reserved
     
Transfer Agent   Transhare Corporation
     
Use of proceeds   We intend to use the proceeds from this offering to invest in (1) research and development for artificial intelligence online courses related to non-English foreign language for Gaokao, and the expansion of the school network for non-English foreign language for Gaokao, (2) the acquisitions of schools and tutorial centers, (3) the recruitment and retention of teachers and management personnel, and (4) for working capital and other general corporate purposes. See “Use of Proceeds” on page 51 for more information.
     
Lock-up   Each of our directors and officers and our principal shareholders (5% or more shareholders) has agreed with the Underwriter, subject to certain exceptions, not to sell, transfer, or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any of our Ordinary Shares or securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for our Ordinary Shares for a period of 180 or 365 days, as applicable, beginning on the date of the effectiveness of this offering. See “Shares Eligible for Future Sale” and “Underwriting” for more information.
     
Risk factors   The Class A Ordinary Shares offered hereby involve a high degree of risk. You should read “Risk Factors,” beginning on page 17 for a discussion of factors to consider before deciding to invest in our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

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RISK FACTORS

 

An investment in our Class A Ordinary Shares involves a high degree of risk. Before deciding whether to invest in our Class A Ordinary Shares, you should consider carefully the risks described below, together with all of the other information set forth in this prospectus, including the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our consolidated financial statements and related notes. If any of these risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flow could be materially and adversely affected, which could cause the trading price of our Class A Ordinary Shares to decline, resulting in a loss of all or part of your investment. The risks described below and discussed in other parts of this prospectus are not the only ones that we face. Additional risks not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also affect our business. You should only consider investing in our Class A Ordinary Shares if you can bear the risk of loss of your entire investment.

 

Risks Relating to Our Business

 

We face intense competition in the PRC education sector, which could lead to adverse pricing pressure, reduced operating margins, loss of market share, departure of qualified teachers and increasing capital expenditure.

 

The education sector in China is fast evolving, highly fragmented and competitive, and we expect competition in this sector to continue and intensify. Furthermore, education institutions’ performance is highly sensitive to demographic changes in China. Student enrollment in primary and secondary education in China can be substantially affected by PRC government policies on family planning. In Zhejiang province and Shanghai, where most of our operations are located, we face intense competition and pricing pressure. Our competitors may adopt similar or better curricula, student support services and marketing strategies, with more appealing pricing and service packages than what we are able to offer. In addition, some of our competitors may have more resources than we do and may be able to dedicate greater resources than we can to school development and promotion and respond more quickly than we can to changes in student demand, market needs and/or new technologies. As such, we may need to lower our tuition fees, or increase our spending in order to be competitive by retaining or attracting students and qualified teachers or identifying and pursuing new market opportunities. Although we are currently leading in providing non-English foreign language courses in the PRC, according to the Industry Report, we cannot assure you that there will not be new competitors in the field that replicate our business model or offer similar services to our target partnering schools and their students. If we are unable to successfully compete for new students or partners, maintain or increase our fee levels, attract and retain qualified teachers or other key personnel, enhance the quality of our educational services or control the costs of our operations, our business, results of operations and financial condition may be materially and adversely affected.

 

Our business and results of operations mainly depend on the level of tuition fees we are able to charge and our ability to maintain and raise tuition fees.

 

The amount of tuition fees we are able to charge represents one of the most significant factors affecting our profitability. The majority of our revenues are derived from fees from our tutorial centers. Our fees have been determined based on demand for our educational programs and training courses, the cost of our operations, the geographic markets in which we operate our business, the fees charged by our competitors, our pricing strategy to gain market share and the general economic conditions in China and in the areas in which our tutorial centers are located, subject to applicable approvals by local government according to the nature of the private schools, e.g., for-profit or not-for-profit. Pursuant to the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Promotion of Privately-run Schools amended in 2016 and further amended in 2018, the measures for the collection of fees by not-for-profit schools shall be formulated by local government of various provinces, autonomous regions and centrally-administrated municipalities. The company’s business, operations and revenue have not been affected, because local government regulations of Zhejiang and Shanghai, where our not-for-profit schools are located, have generally allowed school sponsors autonomy in running schools, including autonomy in pricing of tuition fees, and as a result we are able to charge tuition fees based on market conditions; the charging criteria of for-profit private schools are subject to market and shall be determined by the schools themselves. For the purposes of this law, among our operating entities that are established as schools, Hangzhou Jicai is a for-profit private school, while Yangfushan Tutorial and Shanghai Jicai are not-for-profit schools. There can be no assurance that we will be able to maintain or raise the fee levels we charge in the future due to various reasons, many beyond our control, such as failure to obtain necessary approvals for fee increases, and even if we are able to maintain or raise fees, we are unsure how our fee rates will impact the number of student applications and enrollment. Our business, financial position and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected if we fail to maintain or raise our fees while attracting sufficient students.

 

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We face risks related to health epidemics, natural disasters, or terrorist attacks in China.

 

China and elsewhere worldwide have recently experienced and, in some parts of the world, including the U.S., are still experiencing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, a disease caused by a novel and highly contagious form of coronavirus. The pandemic resulted in travel restrictions, massive closure of businesses and schools, and quarantine measures imposed by governments across the world. Because substantially all of our operations are conducted in China and our students had to remain home from January to early April, 2020. Although we implemented measures to proactively respond to the situation by training our teachers to adapt to remote teaching, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a disruption to our tutorial business. In April 2020, we resumed in-person teaching across our schools and tutorial centers, without substantial negative impact on the attendance of our teachers and students. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the economy in China and worldwide, we currently are unable to predict the duration and severity of the spread of COVID-19, the responses thereto, and their impact on our business and operations, our results of operations, financial condition, cash flows and liquidity, as these depend on rapidly evolving developments, which are highly uncertain and will be a function of factors beyond our control. Such factors include, among others, the continued spread or recurrence of contagion, the implementation of effective preventative and containment measures, the development of effective medical solutions, and the extent to which governmental restrictions on travel, public gatherings, mobility and other activities remain in place or are augmented.

 

Additionally, our business could be materially and adversely affected by natural disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, tornados and tsunamis, and other outbreaks of health epidemics such as avian influenza and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and Influenza A virus, such as H5N1 subtype and H5N2 subtype flu viruses, as well as terrorist attacks, other acts of violence or war or social instability in the region in which we operate or those generally affecting China. If any of these occur, our schools and facilities may be required to temporarily or permanently close and our business operations may be suspended or terminated. Our students, teachers and staff may also be negatively affected by such event. Our physical facilities may also be affected. In addition, any of these could adversely affect the Chinese economy and demographics of the affected region, which could cause significant declines in the number of our students in that region and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Our business is heavily dependent on the reputation of our tutorial services.

 

Our ability to maintain our reputation depends on a number of factors, some of which are beyond our control. As we continue to grow and adapt our programs and services to the demand of our students, it may become difficult to maintain the quality and consistency of the services we offer, which may lead to diminishing confidence in our brand names.

 

Numerous factors can potentially impact the reputation of our tutorial services, including but not limited to, the degree of students’ and their parents’ satisfaction with our curriculum, our teachers and teaching quality, teacher or student scandals, negative press, interruptions to our services, failure to pass inspections by government educational authorities, loss of certifications and approvals that enable us to operate our tutorial centers and other businesses in the manner they are currently operated, and unaffiliated parties using our brands without adhering to our standards. Any negative impact on the reputation of one or more of our tutorial centers or businesses may lead to a decrease in students’ or their parents’ interest in our tutorial services or lead to termination of our cooperation with our partner-schools, which would materially and adversely affect our business.

 

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We have established and developed our student base primarily through a variety of marketing methods. However, we cannot assure you that these marketing efforts will be successful or sufficient in further promoting our brands or in helping us to maintain our competitiveness. If we are unable to further enhance our reputation and increase market awareness of our programs or services, or if we need to incur excessive marketing and promotional expenses in order to remain competitive, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected. If we are unable to maintain or strengthen our reputation and brand recognition, we may not be able to maintain or increase student enrollment, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

 

We may fail to continue to attract and retain students in our tutorial centers.

 

The success of our business largely depends on the number of students enrolled in our tutorial centers, as well as on the amount of fees our students and/or parents are willing to pay. Therefore, our ability to continue to attract students to enroll in our tutorial centers is critical to the continued success and growth of our business. The success of our efforts to enroll students will depend on several factors, including without limitation our ability to:

 

  enhance existing programs to respond to market changes and student demands;

 

  develop new programs that appeal to our students;

 

  expand our geographic reach;

 

  manage our growth while maintaining the consistency of our teaching quality;

 

  effectively market our tutorial centers and programs to a broader base of prospective students; and

 

  respond to the increasing competition in the market.

 

In addition, local and provincial government authorities may restrict our ability to provide tutorial services, andour business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected if we cannot maintain or increase our enrollment.

 

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If we are not able to continue to secure agreements with some or all of our existing partner-schools, or secure new agreements with additional partner-schools for our non-English foreign language program, our results of operations and financial condition may be materially and adversely affected.

 

In December 2019, we started offering our non-English foreign language program by partnering with high schools nationwide in China. We intend to continue to grow this segment of our business by actively seeking and partnering with more high schools and by expanding to various parts of China. Typically, our agreements with these partner-schools are for three years, and these schools are not obligated to renew their existing agreements with us. If any of our current partner-schools discontinue our services, we cannot assure you that we will be able to timely secure service agreements with other schools to replace the lost revenue, if at all, and therefore, our results of operations and financial condition may be affected.

 

Our tutorial centers offer refunds to students who withdraw from enrollment within a certain predetermined period, and we cannot assure you that our estimates of refund will be accurate, or that such refunds will remain insignificant to our results of operations and our financial condition.

 

For our tutorial centers, we generally offer refunds for any remaining classes to students who decide to withdraw from a course within the predetermined period in the education contract the student enters into with the relevant school or center. The refund is limited to the amount of fees that would be charged for any undelivered classes. Refund liability estimates are based on a historical refund ratio on a portfolio basis using the expected value method. As of September 30, 2021 and 2020, refund liability amounted to $348,472 and $246,935, respectively. The refund amount is currently insignificant to our results of operations and our financial condition. However, we cannot assure you that our estimates of refund will be accurate. Additionally, we cannot assure you that such refunds will remain insignificant to our results of operations and our financial condition.

 

We may fail to continue to attract and retain teachers and we may not be able to maintain consistent teaching quality throughout our schools and tutorial centers.

 

Our teachers are critical to maintaining and improving the quality of our tutorial services, and to supporting the expansion of our services. We must continue to attract qualified teachers who have strong command of their subject areas and who meet our qualifications. Currently, there is a limited number of teachers in China with the necessary experience, expertise and qualifications that meet our requirements. We also have to provide competitive compensation packages to attract and retain qualified teachers.

 

The annual retention rate of our teachers as of September 30, 2021 and 2020, was 73.8% and 80.4%, respectively. “Retention rate” is calculated as 100% minus the quotient of the number of teachers who cease being employed during the period by the number of teachers at the beginning of that period (not including teachers hired during that period). Shortages of qualified teachers, or significant decreases in the quality of our tutorial services, whether actual or perceived in one or more of our partner-schools or tutorial centers, may have a material and adverse effect on our business and our reputation. In addition, we may not be able to hire or retain enough qualified teachers to maintain consistent teaching quality. Further, any significantly increase in teacher salaries may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Our historical results may not be indicative of our future performance.

 

Our financial condition and results of operations may fluctuate due to a number of other factors, such as expansion and related costs in a given period, our ability to maintain and increase our profitability and to enhance our operational efficiency, increased competition and market perception and acceptance of any newly introduced educational programs in any given year. In addition, while we plan to further expand our network of partner-schools and tutorial centers, there is no guarantee that we will be able to do so successfully. Furthermore, we may not be successful in continuing to increase the number of students admitted to our programs.

 

We may not grow in future periods, and we may not achieve profitability on a quarterly or annual basis in the future. Our historical results, growth rates and profitability may not be indicative of our future performance. Our ordinary shares could be subject to significant price volatility should our earnings fail to meet the expectations of the investment community. Any of these events could cause the price of our ordinary shares to materially decrease.

 

We may not be able to successfully execute our growth strategies or effectively manage our growth, which may hinder our ability to capitalize on new business opportunities.

 

Managing and supporting our growth strategies require substantial management time and know-how, as well as the commitment of significant resources and expenditure. If any of these elements are not fulfilled, we may not be able to grow or effectively and efficiently manage the growth of our operations. Any failure to effectively and efficiently manage our resources may materially and adversely affect our ability to capitalize on new business opportunities, which in turn may have a material adverse effect on our business and financial results.

 

We plan to leverage our existing operations and resources to further expand our network of partner schools and tutorial centers. In addition, we plan to explore acquisition opportunities. We may not succeed in executing our growth strategies due to a number of factors, including failure to do any of the following:

 

  identify cities with sufficient growth potential in which we can establish new partner schools;

 

  identify suitable acquisition targets;

 

  establish cooperation with partners;

 

  effectively execute our expansion plans;

 

  acquire or lease suitable land sites in the cities in which we plan to expand our operations;

 

  obtain government support in cities where we already have schools or in cities or areas in which we plan to expand our operations;

 

  effectively market our tutorial services in new markets or promote ourselves in existing markets;

 

  replicate our successful growth model in new markets or new geographical locations outside of Zhejiang province and Shanghai city area;

 

  obtain the requisite licenses and permits from the authorities necessary to open tutorial centers at our desired locations;

 

  continue to enhance our course materials or adapt our course materials to changing student needs and teaching methods; and

 

  achieve the benefits we expect from our expansion.

 

If we fail to successfully execute our growth strategies, we may not be able to grow as expected, and as a result, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

 

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We are subject to taxation in multiple jurisdictions, which is complex and often requires making subjective determinations subject to scrutiny by, and disagreements with, tax regulators.

 

We are subject to many different forms of taxation in each of the countries and regions we form and/or conduct our business, of operation including, but not limited to, income tax, withholding tax, property tax, VAT and social security and other payroll-related taxes. Tax law and administration is complex, subject to change and varying interpretations and often requires us to make subjective determinations. In addition, we take positions in the course of our business with respect to various tax matters, including in connection with our operations. Tax authorities worldwide are increasingly rigorous in their scrutiny of corporate tax structures and may not agree with the determinations that are made, or the positions taken, by us with respect to the application of tax law. Such disagreements could result in lengthy legal disputes, an increased overall tax rate applicable to us and, ultimately, in the payment of substantial amounts of tax, interest and penalties, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

 

An uncertain tax position is recognized as a benefit only if it is “more likely than not” that the tax position would be sustained in a tax examination. The amount recognized is the largest amount of tax benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized on examination. For tax positions not meeting the “more likely than not” test, no tax benefit is recorded. Penalties and interest incurred related to underpayment of income tax are classified as income tax expense in the period incurred. No significant penalties or interest relating to income taxes have been incurred for the years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020.

 

According to PRC taxation regulation, if tax has not been fully paid, tax authorities may impose tax and late payment penalties within three years. In practice, since all of the taxes owed are local taxes, the local tax authority is typically more flexible and willing to provide incentives or settlements with local small and medium-size businesses to relieve their burden and to stimulate the local economy. There was no interest and penalty accrued as of September 30, 2021 and 2020, as the Company has not received any penalty or interest charge notice from local tax authorities. As of the date of this prospectus, the tax years ended December 31, 2016 through December 31, 2021 for the Company’s PRC subsidiaries and VIEs remain open for statutory examination by PRC tax authorities.

 

We are subject to various approvals, licenses, permits, registrations and filings for our education and other services in the PRC.

 

In order to conduct and operate our education business, we are required to obtain and maintain various approvals, licenses and permits and to fulfill registration and filing requirements pursuant to applicable laws and regulations. For instance, to establish and operate a school, we are required to obtain a private school operation permit from the local education bureau and to register with the local civil affairs bureau to obtain a certificate of registration for a privately operated non-enterprise entity for not-for-profit private schools, or register with the local administration for industry and commerce for for-profit private schools.

 

Given the significant amount of discretion the local PRC authorities may have in interpreting, implementing and enforcing relevant rules and regulations, as well as other factors beyond our control, while we intend to use our best efforts to obtain all requisite permits and complete all necessary filings, renewals and registrations on a timely basis, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain all required permits. If we fail to receive any required permit in a timely manner or obtain or renew any permits and certificates, we may be subject to fines, confiscation of the gains derived from our noncompliant operations, suspension of our non-compliant operations, compensation payments for any economic loss suffered by our students or other relevant parties, which may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

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New legislation or changes in the PRC regulatory requirements regarding private education have affected, and may further affect, our business operations and prospects materially and adversely.

 

The private education sector in China is subject to regulations in various aspects. Relevant rules and regulations could be amended or updated from time to time.

 

On April 7, 2021, the revised Implementation Rules for the Law for Promoting Private Education of the PRC, which regulates the establishment, organization and operation of private schools, teachers and educators, assets and financial management of schools, among other things, was promulgated and became effective on September 1, 2021. The revised Implementing Regulation prohibits private schools that provide compulsory education to be controlled by means of agreements or to enter into any transactions with any related parties. Until September 2021, the Company had controlled and received the economic benefits from two private schools that provide compulsory education through VIE Agreements, to provide contractual exposure to foreign investment in Chinese-based companies where Chinese law prohibits direct foreign investment in the Chinese operating companies. Under U.S. GAAP, the Company was deemed to have a controlling financial interest in, and be the primary beneficiary of, the VIEs for accounting purposes, because pursuant to the VIE Agreements, the operations of the VIEs were solely for the benefit of the Company, and the Company was deemed to be the primary beneficiary of the VIEs for accounting purposes and must consolidate the VIE. In order to become compliant with the Implementing Regulation, in September 2021, the Company completed a reorganization to divest its operations of these two private schools and no longer uses a VIE structure. See “Prospectus Summary – Recent Development – The Reorganization” for more details of the Reorganization. The Reorganization has materially and adversely impacted our operations and future prospects, as these two private schools had represented a significant portion of our business and operations.

 

On July 24, 2021, the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council jointly issued the Guideline, which contains various requirements and restrictions related to after school tutoring services, including registration as a non-for-profit school, a prohibition on foreign ownership, a prohibition for listed companies on raising capital to invest in businesses that teach academic subjects in compulsory education, limitations as to when tutoring services on academic subjects may be provided and new fee standards. On July 28, 2021, to further clarify the scope of academic subjects in China’s compulsory education system, the PRC Ministry of Education issued a notice (the “Notice”). The Notice specified that academic subjects include the following courses provided in accordance with the learning content of the national curriculum standards: Morality and Law, Chinese Language, History, Geography, Mathematics, foreign languages (English, Japanese, and Russian), Physics, Chemistry and Biology. In accordance with the Guideline and the Notice, the Company currently assesses that its tutorial centers do not provide academic subjects in China’s compulsory education system and, therefore, are not subject to the above requirements and restrictions. (See “Regulations - Regulations Related to Private Education – 9. Guideline to Significantly Reduce the Excessive Burden of Homework and After-school Tutoring for Students in Primary and Middle Schools (the “Guideline”). Nevertheless, the Guideline may be expanded in the future to cover any aspect of our business or operations. As of the date of this prospectus, there remain uncertainties in the interpretation and enforcement of the revised Implementing Regulations and Guideline, which could materially and adversely impact our business and financial outlook.

 

The Law on the Promotion of Private Schools of the PRC was amended in November 2016, which became effective on September 1, 2017, and the Decision on Amending the Law for Promoting Private Education of the PRC (the “Decision”) was further amended in December 2018. According to the Decision, private schools can be established as for-profit or not-for-profit schools, with the exception of schools that provide compulsory education, which can only be established as not-for-profit private schools. In addition, pursuant to the Decision, (i) school sponsors of for-profit private schools are allowed to receive the operating profits of the schools while the school sponsors of not-for-profit private schools are not permitted to do so; (ii) not-for-profit private schools shall enjoy the same preferential tax and supply of land treatment as public schools while for-profit private schools shall enjoy the preferential tax and supply of land treatment as stipulated by the government; and (iii) for-profit private schools have the discretion to determine the fees to be charged by taking into consideration various factors such as the school operating costs and market demand, and no prior approval from government authorities is required, while not-for-profit private schools shall collect fees pursuant to the measures stipulated by the local PRC government authorities. For details on the distinction between for-profit private schools and not-for-profit private schools under the amended Law on the Promotion of Private Schools of the PRC, please see “Regulations — Regulations Related to Private Education — Law for Promoting Private Education of PRC”. The amount of tuition fees we are able to charge represents one of the most significant factors affecting our profitability. As of the date of this prospectus, among all of our operating entities that are established as schools, Hangzhou Jicai is our only for-profit school, while Yangfushan Tutorial and Shanghai Jicai are not-for-profit schools. To date, local government regulations of Zhejiang and Shanghai, where our not-for-profit schools are located, have generally allowed school sponsors autonomy in school operations, including autonomy in pricing of tuition fees. Accordingly, local governments in Shanghai and Zhejiang have not directly interfered with the determination of pricing of tuition fees of our not-for-profit schools, and we are able to charge fees based on market conditions. As such, as of the date of this prospectus, the company’s business, operations and revenue have not been affected by the designation of “for-profit” or “not-for-profit” for private schools. However, if local governments start to impose restrictions on the charging criteria for the collection of tuition fees by not-for-profit schools, then the revenue of our not-for profit schools could be negatively affected. See “Risk Factors - Risks Relating to Our Business - Our business and results of operations mainly depend on the level of tuition fees we are able to charge and our ability to maintain and raise tuition fees.

 

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On December 30, 2016, the Implementation Regulations for Classification Registration of Private Schools (the “Classification Registration Rules”) were promulgated by five PRC government authorities, and became effective on the same date. According to the Classification Registration Rules, existing private schools are required to choose to register either as not-for-profit or for-profit private schools with competent government authorities. If a school elects to register as a for-profit school, it is required to (i) undertake financial settlement, (ii) clarify the ownership of land, school premises and properties it accumulated during its operations, (iii) pay relevant taxes and fees, and (iv) obtain a new private school operation permit and re-register with relevant authorities. We are still unable to predict or estimate the potential costs and expenses in choosing and adjusting our structure. We may incur significant administration and financial costs when we choose to or we are required to complete the re-registration process, which may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. However, we cannot assure you that the implementation of the relevant rules and regulations by the competent authorities will not deviate from our understanding.

 

Uncertainties exist with respect to the interpretation and enforcement of new and existing laws and regulations, including their interpretations and applications by the government authorities may impact any of our business operations. We cannot assure you that we will be in compliance with the new rules and regulations, or that we will be able to timely and efficiently change our business practices in line with the new regulatory environment. Any such failure could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

 

As we currently provide meal services at Yangfushan Tutorial, we may be exposed to potential liabilities if we cannot maintain food quality standards, which could adversely and materially affect our business.

 

As we provide meal services at Yangfushan Tutorial, we may be exposed to potential liabilities if we are not able to maintain food quality standards. Although we strive to maintain the quality of food we provide, we cannot assure you that we will always meet the food quality standards required by applicable laws and regulations or maintain proper operations of our canteens at Yangfushan Tutorial. Therefore, we cannot assure you that incidents and other issues caused by poor food quality will not occur in the future and, if we are unable to manage these incidents effectively, our teachers’ and students’ health could suffer and medical emergencies could potentially occur. Any of the foregoing could seriously damage our reputation and affect our student enrollment, which would have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Accidents or injuries suffered by our students, our employees or other personnel at our premises may adversely affect our reputation and subject us to liabilities.

 

We could be held liable for accidents or injuries or other harm to students or other people at our premises, including those caused by or otherwise arising in connection with our facilities or employees. We could also face claims alleging that we were negligent, did not adequately maintain our facilities or provided insufficient supervision to our students and therefore may be held liable for accidents or injuries suffered by our students or other people at our school premises. In addition, if any of our students or teachers commits any acts of violence, we could face allegations that we failed to provide adequate security or were otherwise responsible for his or her actions. Furthermore, in such events, our tutorial centers may be perceived to be unsafe, which may discourage prospective students from applying for or attending our tutorial centers. Although we maintain certain liability insurance, this insurance coverage may not be adequate to fully protect us from these kinds of claims and liabilities. Further, we may not be able to renew our insurance policies in the future at reasonable prices or at all. A liability claim against us or any of our employees could adversely affect our reputation and student enrollment and retention. Also, such claim may create unfavorable publicity, cause us to pay compensation, incur costs in defending such claim, and divert the time and attention of our management, all of which may have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.

 

We maintain limited insurance coverage.

 

We maintain various insurance policies such as liability insurance for all of our teachers and students to safeguard against risks and unexpected events. However, our insurance coverage is still limited in terms of amount, scope and benefit and we do not maintain property insurance for our buildings or premises, nor do we maintain business insurance for our operations. Consequently, we are exposed to various risks associated with our business and operations. We are nevertheless exposed to risks, including, but not limited to, accidents or injuries in our tutorial centers that are beyond the scope of our insurance coverage, fires, explosions or other accidents for which we do not currently maintain insurance, loss of key management and personnel, business interruption, natural disasters, strikes, terrorist attacks and social instability or any other events beyond our control. The insurance industry in China is still at an early stage of development. Insurance companies in China offer limited business-related insurance products. We do not have any business disruption insurance or key-man life insurance. Any business disruption, litigation or legal proceedings or natural disaster, such as epidemics, pandemics or earthquakes, or other events beyond our control could result in substantial costs and the diversion of our resources. Our business, financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected as a result.

 

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If we fail to protect our intellectual property rights or prevent the misappropriation of our intellectual property rights, we may lose our competitive edge and our brand, reputation and operations may be materially and adversely affected.

 

Unauthorized use of any of our intellectual property may adversely affect our business and reputation. We rely on a combination of trademark and trade secret laws to protect our intellectual property rights. Nevertheless, third parties may obtain and use our intellectual property without due authorization. The practice of intellectual property rights enforcement action by the PRC regulatory authorities is in its early stage of development and is subject to significant uncertainty. We may also need to resort to litigation and other legal proceedings to enforce our intellectual property rights. Any such action, litigation or other legal proceedings could result in substantial costs diversion of our management’s attention and resources and could disrupt our business. In addition, there is no assurance that we will be able to enforce our intellectual property rights effectively or otherwise prevent others from using our intellectual property without authorization. Failure to adequately protect our intellectual property could materially and adversely affect our brand name and reputation, and our business, financial condition and results of operations. We may face disputes from time to time relating to the intellectual property rights of third parties. We cannot assure you that materials and other educational content used in our educational programs do not or will not infringe the intellectual property rights of third parties. As of the date of this prospectus, we did not encounter any material claim for intellectual property infringement. However, we cannot assure you that in the future third parties will not claim that we have infringed their proprietary rights. Although we plan to defend ourselves vigorously in any such litigation or legal proceedings, there is no assurance that we will prevail in these matters. Participation in such litigation and legal proceedings may also cause us to incur substantial expenses and divert the time and attention of our management. We may be required to pay damages or incur settlement expenses. In addition, in case we are required to pay any royalties or enter into any licensing agreements with the owners of intellectual property rights, we may find that the terms are not commercially acceptable and we may lose the ability to use the related content or materials, which in turn could materially and adversely affect our educational programs and our operations. Any similar claim against us, even without any merit, could also hurt our reputation and brand image. Any such event could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

Failure to make adequate contributions to various employee benefit plans as required by PRC regulations may subject us to penalties.

 

Pursuant to PRC laws and regulations, we are required to participate in various employee social insurance plans, including pension insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, work-related injury insurance, maternity insurance, and the housing provident fund, and contribute to these plans and fund at the levels specified by the relevant local government authorities from time to time at locations where we operate our business. For the fiscal years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, we did not make full contributions to the social insurance plans as required under the relevant laws and regulations. As of September 30, 2021 and 2020, we had outstanding social insurance payments payable in the aggregate amount of approximately $54,784 and $39,182, respectively. Although we have not received any notice from the relevant local government authorities regarding the outstanding contributions, we cannot assure you that the relevant local government authorities will not require us to pay the outstanding amount within a prescribed time or impose late fees or fines on us. A late fee of 0.05% per day and a fine of one to three times the outstanding amount may be imposed by the authority, which may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

We have a limited history of operating some of our business lines.

 

We have been offering non-English foreign language programs via our tutorial centers but have only been offering non-English foreign language programs by partnering with high schools since December 2019. Additionally, we have only been offering logistics services since December 2019 via our newly established logistics company. Our limited history of operating part of our business may not serve as an adequate basis for evaluating our future prospects and operating results, including net revenue, cash flows and profitability.

 

Unauthorized disclosure or manipulation of student, teacher and other sensitive personal data, whether through breach of our network security or otherwise, could expose us to litigation or otherwise could adversely affect our reputation.

 

Maintaining our network security and internal controls over access rights is of critical importance because proprietary and confidential student and teacher information, such as names, addresses, and other personal information, is primarily stored in our computer database located at each of our tutorial centers. If our security measures are breached as a result of actions by third-parties, employee error, malfeasance or otherwise, third parties may receive or be able to access student or teacher records, which could subject us to liabilities, interrupt our business and adversely impact our reputation. Additionally, we run the risk that our employees or third parties could misappropriate or illegally disclose confidential educational information in our possession. As a result, we may be required to expend significant resources to provide additional protection from the threat of these security breaches or to alleviate problems caused by these breaches.

 

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We have limited sources of working capital, which have been primarily funded from operations, bank loans, and advances from shareholders, and we cannot assure you that our needs for additional financing will be met in the future

 

As of September 30, 2021 and 2020, we had cash of approximately $1.2 and $1.1 million, total current assets of approximately $5.5 million and $5.1 million and total current liabilities of approximately $12.6 million and $19.0 million, respectively. The Company has limited source of working capital and historically has funded its working capital needs primarily from operations, bank loans, and advances from shareholders, and intends to continue doing so in the near future. No assurance can be given that we will have revenues sufficient to sustain our operations or that we would be able to obtain equity/debt financing in the current economic environment, or we will be able to obtain any additional capital through operations, bank loans, and advances from shareholders, or any combination thereof, on satisfactory terms or at all. Additionally, no assurance can be given that any such financing, if obtained, will be adequate to meet our capital needs and to support our operations. If we do not obtain adequate capital on a timely basis and on satisfactory terms, our revenues and operations would be materially negatively impacted.

 

Mr. Xueyuan Weng, the CEO and controlling shareholder of the Company, has provided us with working capital in the form of non-interest bearing, unsecured and on demand loans, and we cannot assure you that these funds will always be available to us due to their on demand nature.

 

As of September 30, 2021 and 2020, the balance of the funds advanced by Mr. Xueyuan Weng, the CEO and controlling shareholder of the Company, for working capital, was $672,560 and $nil, respectively. These funds are non-interest bearing, unsecured and due upon demand. Although Mr. Weng signed a written commitment letter on January 28, 2021 to guarantee that he would not seek repayment of the balance of the funds as long as the Company needs these funds as working capital until 2025, we cannot assure you that Mr. Weng will abide by the terms of the commitment letter and we may have to repay the loan back to him when we still in need of working capital, which may negatively impact our operations and revenues.

 

Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC

 

Changes in China’s economic, political, or social conditions or government policies could have a material adverse effect on our business and operations.

 

Substantially all of our assets and operations are currently located in China. Accordingly, our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects may be influenced to a significant degree by political, economic, and social conditions in China generally. The Chinese economy differs from the economies of most developed countries in many respects, including the level of government involvement, level of development, growth rate, control of foreign exchange, and allocation of resources. Although the Chinese government has implemented measures emphasizing the utilization of market forces for economic reform, including the reduction of state ownership of productive assets and the establishment of improved corporate governance in business enterprises, a substantial portion of productive assets in China is still owned by the government. In addition, the Chinese government continues to play a significant role in regulating industry development by imposing industrial policies. The Chinese government also exercises significant control over China’s economic growth by allocating resources, controlling payment of foreign currency-denominated obligations, setting monetary policy, and providing preferential treatment to particular industries or companies.

 

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While the Chinese economy has experienced significant growth over the past decades, growth has been uneven, both geographically and among various sectors of the economy. Any adverse changes in economic conditions in China, in the policies of the Chinese government, or in the laws and regulations in China could have a material adverse effect on the overall economic growth of China. Such developments could adversely affect our business and operating results, reduce demand for our products, and weaken our competitive position. The Chinese government has implemented various measures to encourage economic growth and guide the allocation of resources. Some of these measures may benefit the overall Chinese economy, but may have a negative effect on us. For example, our financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected by government control over capital investments or changes in tax regulations. In addition, in the past the Chinese government has implemented certain measures, including interest rate adjustments, to control the pace of economic growth. These measures may cause decreased economic activities in China, which may adversely affect our business and operating results.

 

Furthermore, we and our China based operating entities, as well as our investors, face uncertainty about future actions by the Chinese government that could significantly affect our financial performance and operations. Failure to take timely and appropriate measures to adapt to any of these or similar regulatory compliance challenges could materially and adversely affect our current corporate structure and business operations.

 

As of the date of this prospectus, there are no laws, regulations or other rules require our China based operating entities to obtain permission or approvals from Chinese authorities to list on U.S. exchanges, and neither we nor our China based operating entities have received or were denied such permission. However, there is a risk that we or our China based operating entities will not receive or be denied permission from Chinese authorities to list on U.S. exchanges in the future, which could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer our securities to investors and cause the value of our shares to significantly decline or be worthless.

 

There are uncertainties regarding the enforcement of laws and rules and regulations in China, which can change quickly with little advance notice, and there is a risk that the Chinese government may exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas, which could materially and adversely affect our business and hinder our ability to offer or continue our operations, and cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless.

 

The PRC legal system is based on written statutes. Unlike common law systems, it is a system in which legal cases have limited value as precedents. There are uncertainties regarding the enforcement of PRC laws, and rules and regulations in China can change quickly with little advance notice. Any actions by the Chinese government to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas could materially and adversely affect our business and hinder our ability to offer or continue our operations, and cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless. For example, the Chinese cybersecurity regulator announced on July 2, 2021 that it had begun an investigation of Didi Global Inc. (NYSE: DIDI) and two days later ordered that company’s app be removed from smartphone app stores. In December 2021, DIDI announced that it would delist from the New York Stock Exchange less than six months after its initial public offering.

 

On July 6, 2021, the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued an announcement to crack down on illegal activities in the securities market and promote the high-quality development of the capital market, which, among other things, requires the relevant governmental authorities to strengthen cross-border oversight of law-enforcement and judicial cooperation, to enhance supervision over China-based companies listed overseas, and to establish and improve the system of extraterritorial application of the PRC securities laws. Since this announcement is relatively new, uncertainties still exist in relation to how soon legislative or administrative regulation making bodies will respond and what existing or new laws or regulations or detailed implementations and interpretations will be modified or promulgated, if any, and the potential impact such modified or new laws and regulations will have on companies like us and our Class A Ordinary Shares. 

 

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From time to time, we may have to resort to administrative and court proceedings to enforce our legal rights. Since PRC administrative and court authorities have significant discretion in interpreting and implementing statutory and contractual terms, however, it may be more difficult to evaluate the outcome of administrative and court proceedings and the level of legal protection we enjoy in the PRC legal system than in more developed legal systems. Furthermore, the PRC legal system is based in part on government policies and internal rules (some of which are not published in a timely manner or at all) that may have retroactive effect. As a result, we may not be aware of our violation of these policies and rules until sometime after the violation. Such uncertainties, including uncertainties over the scope and effect of our contractual, property (including intellectual property) and procedural rights, and any failure to respond to changes in the regulatory environment in China could materially and adversely affect our business and impede our ability to continue our operations, and cause the value of our securities to significantly decline or become worthless.

 

Recent greater oversight by the CAC over data security, particularly for companies seeking to list on a foreign exchange, could adversely impact our business and our proposed offering.

 

On December 28, 2021, the CAC, together with 12 other governmental departments of the PRC, jointly promulgated the Cybersecurity Review Measures, which became on February 15, 2022. The Cybersecurity Review Measures provides that, in addition to critical information infrastructure operators (“CIIOs”) that intend to purchase Internet products and services, data processing operators engaging in data processing activities that affect or may affect national security must be subject to cybersecurity review by the Cybersecurity Review Office of the PRC. According to the Cybersecurity Review Measures, a cybersecurity review assesses potential national security risks that may be brought about by any procurement, data processing, or overseas listing. The Cybersecurity Review Measures further requires that CIIOs and data processing operators that possess personal data of at least one million users must apply for a review by the Cybersecurity Review Office of the PRC before conducting listings in foreign countries.

 

On November 14, 2021, the CAC published the Security Administration Draft, which provides that data processing operators engaging in data processing activities that affect or may affect national security must be subject to network data security review by the relevant Cyberspace Administration of the PRC. According to the Security Administration Draft, data processing operators who possess personal data of at least one million users or collect data that affects or may affect national security must be subject to network data security review by the relevant Cyberspace Administration of the PRC. The deadline for public comments on the Security Administration Draft was December 13, 2021. 

 

As of the date of this prospectus, we have not received any notice from any authorities identifying any of our PRC subsidiaries as a CIIOs or requiring us to go through cybersecurity review or network data security review by the CAC. We believe that our proposed listing in the U.S. will not be affected by the Cybersecurity Review Measures or Security Administration Draft, and our PRC operations will not be subject to cybersecurity review or network data security review by the CAC for this offering, because our PRC subsidiaries are not CIIOs or data processing operators with personal information of more than 1 million users. There remains uncertainty, however, as to how the Cybersecurity Review Measures and the Security Administration Draft will be interpreted or implemented and whether the PRC regulatory agencies, including the CAC, may adopt new laws, regulations, rules, or detailed implementation and interpretation related to the Cybersecurity Review Measures and the Security Administration Draft. If any such new laws, regulations, rules, or implementation and interpretation come into effect, we will take all reasonable measures and actions to comply and to minimize the adverse effect of such laws on us. We cannot guarantee, however, that we will not be subject to cybersecurity review or network data security review in the future.

 

The Chinese government exerts substantial influence over the manner in which we must conduct our business and may intervene or influence our operations at any time, which actions have recently resulted in a material change in our operations, as we had to divest our operation of Quhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School, and which actions could further impact our operations materially and adversely, and significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer securities to investors and cause the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares to significantly decline or be worthless.

 

The Chinese government has exercised, and continues to exercise, substantial control over virtually every sector of the Chinese economy through regulation and state ownership. As a result of the revised Implementing Regulation, which became effective in September 2021, we had to divest our operation of Quhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School, which has materially and adversely impacted the results of our operations and future prospects. See “Risk Factors – Risks Relating to Our Business - New legislation or changes in the PRC regulatory requirements regarding private education have affected, and may further affect, our business operations and prospects materially and adversely”. Our ability to operate in China may be further harmed by changes in its laws and regulations, including those relating to private education, taxation, environmental regulations, land use rights, property and other matters. The central or local governments of these jurisdictions may impose new, stricter regulations or interpretations of existing regulations that would require additional expenditures and efforts on our part to ensure our compliance with such regulations or interpretations. Accordingly, government actions in the future, including any decision not to continue to support recent economic reforms and to return to a more centrally planned economy or regional or local variations in the implementation of economic policies, could have a significant effect on economic conditions in China or particular regions thereof, and could require us to divest ourselves of any interest we then hold in Chinese properties.

  

Our business is subject to various government and regulatory interference. We could be subject to regulation by various political and regulatory entities, including various local and municipal agencies and government sub-divisions. The Company may incur increased costs necessary to comply with existing and newly adopted laws and regulations or penalties for any failure to comply. Our operations could be adversely affected, directly or indirectly, by existing or future laws and regulations relating to our business or industry, which could result in further material changes in our operations and could adversely impact the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

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Furthermore, given recent statements by the Chinese government indicating an intent to exert more oversight and control over offerings that are conducted overseas, although we are currently not required to obtain permission from any of the PRC federal or local government and has not received any denial to list on the U.S. exchange, it is uncertain whether or when we might be required to obtain permission from the PRC government to list on U.S. exchanges in the future, and even if such permission is obtained, whether it will be later denied or rescinded, which could significantly limit or completely hinder our ability to offer or continue to offer our securities to investors and cause the value of our shares to significantly decline or be worthless.

 

You may experience difficulties in effecting service of legal process, enforcing foreign judgments, or bringing actions in China against us or our management named in the prospectus based on foreign laws. It may also be difficult for you or overseas regulators to conduct investigations or collect evidence within China.

 

As a company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, we conduct a majority of our operations in China and a majority of our assets are located in China. In addition, all of our senior executive officers reside within China for a significant portion of the time and are PRC nationals. As a result, it may be difficult for you to effect service of process upon those persons inside mainland China. It may be difficult for you to enforce judgements obtained in U.S. courts based on civil liability provisions of the U.S. federal securities laws against us and our officers and directors, as none of them currently resides in the U.S. or has substantial assets in the U.S. In addition, there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of the Cayman Islands or the PRC would recognize or enforce judgments of U.S. courts against us or such persons predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the U.S. or any state.

 

The recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments are provided for under the PRC Civil Procedures Law. PRC courts may recognize and enforce foreign judgments in accordance with the requirements of the PRC Civil Procedures Law based either on treaties between China and the country where the judgment is made or on principles of reciprocity between jurisdictions. China does not have any treaties or other forms of written arrangement with the United States that provide for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. In addition, according to the PRC Civil Procedures Law, the PRC courts will not enforce a foreign judgment against us or our directors and officers if they decide that the judgment violates the basic principles of PRC laws or national sovereignty, security, or public interest. As a result, it is uncertain whether and on what basis a PRC court would enforce a judgment rendered by a court in the United States. See “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities.”

 

It may also be difficult for you or overseas regulators to conduct investigations or collect evidence within China. For example, in China, there are significant legal and other obstacles to obtaining information, documents, and materials needed for regulatory investigations or litigation outside China. Although the authorities in China may establish a regulatory cooperation mechanism with its counterparts of another country or region to monitor and oversee cross border securities activities, such regulatory cooperation with the securities regulatory authorities in the Unities States may not be efficient in the absence of practical cooperation mechanism. Furthermore, according to Article 177 of the PRC Securities Law, or “Article 177,” which became effective in March 2020, no overseas securities regulator is allowed to directly conduct investigation or evidence collection activities within the territory of the PRC. Article 177 further provides that Chinese entities and individuals are not allowed to provide documents or materials related to securities business activities to foreign agencies without prior consent from the securities regulatory authority of the PRC State Council and the competent departments of the PRC State Council. While detailed interpretation of or implementing rules under Article 177 have yet to be promulgated, the inability for an overseas securities regulator to directly conduct investigation or evidence collection activities within China may further increase difficulties faced by you in protecting your interests.

 

The newly enacted Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and the Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act passed by the U.S. Senate, all call for additional and more stringent criteria to be applied to emerging market companies upon assessing the qualification of their auditors, especially the non-U.S. auditors who are not inspected by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board of the United States (the “PCAOB”). These developments could add uncertainties to our offering and listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and Nasdaq may determine to delist our securities if the PCAOB determines that it cannot inspect or fully investigate our auditor.

 

On April 21, 2020, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton and PCAOB Chairman William D. Duhnke III, along with other senior SEC staff, released a joint statement highlighting the risks associated with investing in companies based in or have substantial operations in emerging markets including China. The joint statement emphasized the risks associated with lack of access for the PCAOB to inspect auditors and audit work papers in China and higher risks of fraud in emerging markets.

 

On May 18, 2020, Nasdaq filed three proposals with the SEC to (i) apply minimum offering size requirement for companies primarily operating in “Restrictive Market”, (ii) adopt a new requirement relating to the qualification of management or board of director for Restrictive Market companies, and (iii) apply additional and more stringent criteria to an applicant or listed company based on the qualifications of the company’s auditors.

 

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On December 18, 2020, the “Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act” was signed by President Donald Trump and became law. This legislation requires certain issuers of securities to establish that they are not owned or controlled by a foreign government. Specifically, an issuer must make this certification if the PCAOB is unable to audit specified reports because the issuer has retained a foreign public accounting firm not subject to inspection by the PCAOB. Furthermore, if the PCAOB is unable to inspect the issuer’s public accounting firm for three consecutive years beginning in 2021, the issuer’s securities are banned from trade on a national exchange or through other methods.

 

On June 22, 2021, the U.S. Senate passed the “Accelerating Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act”, which, if passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and signed into law by the President, would decrease the number of non-inspection years for foreign companies to comply with PCAOB audits from three to two years, thus reducing the time period before their securities may be prohibited from trading or delisted.

 

On November 5, 2021, the SEC approved the PCAOB’s Rule 6100, Board Determinations Under the “Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act”. Rule 6100 provides a framework for the PCAOB to use to determine whether it is unable to inspect or investigate registered public accounting firms located in a foreign jurisdiction because of a position taken by one or more authorities in that jurisdiction.

 

On December 2, 2021, The SEC adopted amendments to finalize rules implementing the submission and disclosure requirements in the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (HFCAA). The rules apply to registrants the SEC identifies as having filed an annual report with an audit report issued by a registered public accounting firm that is located in a foreign jurisdiction and that the PCAOB is unable to inspect or investigate.

 

On December 16, 2021, the PCAOB issued a report on its determinations that the Board is unable to inspect or investigate completely PCAOB-registered public accounting firms headquartered in mainland China and in Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), because of positions taken by PRC authorities in those jurisdictions (the “Determination”). The Board made these determinations pursuant to PCAOB Rule 6100, which provides a framework for how the PCAOB fulfills its responsibilities under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (HFCAA).

 

The lack of access to the PCAOB inspection in China prevents the PCAOB from fully evaluating audits and quality control procedures of the auditors based in China. As a result, the investors may be deprived of the benefits of such PCAOB inspections. The inability of the PCAOB to conduct inspections of auditors in China makes it more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of these accounting firms’ audit procedures or quality control procedures as compared to auditors outside of China that are subject to the PCAOB inspections, which could cause existing and potential investors to lose confidence in audit procedures and reported financial information and the quality of financial statements of China-based companies..

 

Our auditor, Friedman LLP, the independent registered public accounting firm that issues the audit report included elsewhere in this prospectus, is headquartered in Manhattan, New York and registered with the PCAOB. Our auditor is subject to laws in the United States pursuant to which the PCAOB conducts regular inspections to assess our auditor’s compliance with the applicable professional standards, and has been inspected by the PCAOB on a regular basis with the last inspection in June 2018. As such, as of the date of this prospectus, our auditor is not subject to the Determinations announced by the PCAOB and our offering is not affected by the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act and related regulations. However, the recent developments would add uncertainties to our offering and we cannot assure you whether Nasdaq or regulatory authorities would apply additional and more stringent criteria to us after considering the effectiveness of our auditor’s audit procedures and quality control procedures, adequacy of personnel and training, or sufficiency of resources, geographic reach or experience as related to the audit of our financial statements. Furthermore, there is a risk that our auditor cannot be inspected by the PCAOB in the future. The lack of inspection could cause trading in our securities to be prohibited on a national exchange or in the over-the-counter trading market under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, and, as a result, Nasdaq may determine to delist our securities, which may cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless.

 

Increases in labor costs in the PRC may adversely affect our business and our profitability.

 

China’s economy has experienced increases in labor costs in recent years. China’s overall economy and the average wage in China are expected to continue to grow. The average wage level for our employees has also increased in recent years. We expect that our labor costs, including wages and employee benefits, will continue to increase. Unless we are able to pass on these increased labor costs to our customers by increasing prices for our products or services, our profitability and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

 

In addition, we have been subject to stricter regulatory requirements in terms of entering into labor contracts with our employees and paying various statutory employee benefits, including pensions, housing fund, medical insurance, work-related injury insurance, unemployment insurance, and maternity insurance to designated government agencies for the benefit of our employees. Pursuant to the PRC Labor Contract Law, or the “Labor Contract Law,” that became effective in January 2008 and its amendments that became effective in July 2013 and its implementing rules that became effective in September 2008, employers are subject to stricter requirements in terms of signing labor contracts, minimum wages, paying remuneration, determining the term of employees’ probation, and unilaterally terminating labor contracts. In the event that we decide to terminate some of our employees or otherwise change our employment or labor practices, the Labor Contract Law and its implementation rules may limit our ability to effect those changes in a desirable or cost-effective manner, which could adversely affect our business and results of operations.

 

As the interpretation and implementation of labor-related laws and regulations are still evolving, we cannot assure you that our employment practice does not and will not violate labor-related laws and regulations in China, which may subject us to labor disputes or government investigations. If we are deemed to have violated relevant labor laws and regulations, we could be required to provide additional compensation to our employees and our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

 

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The COVID-19 pandemic may continue to have a material adverse impact on the general economic outlook, economic growth and business sentiment (see “— We face risks related to health epidemics, natural disasters, or terrorist attacks in China.” in this prospectus), and may in turn influence the labor cost. Additionally, certain restrictive measures, including quarantining policies and travel restrictions, implemented by China in response to the COVID-19 pandemic may impose obstacles for us to recruit teachers and operational staff suitable for our business, and may in turn influence our labor cost. Such influence, if any, however, remains unclear at of the date of this prospectus.

 

Our PRC Affiliated Entities did not make adequate social insurance and housing fund contributions for all employees as required by PRC regulations previously, which may subject us to penalties.

 

According to the PRC Social Insurance Law and the Administrative Regulations on the Housing Funds, companies operating in China are required to participate in pension insurance, work-related injury insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance (collectively known as “social insurance”), and housing funds plans, and the employers must pay all or a portion of the social insurance premiums and housing funds for their employees. For more details, please see “Regulations—Regulations Related to Employment and Social Welfare—Social Insurance and Housing Fund.” The requirement of social insurance and housing fund has not been implemented consistently by the local governments in China given the different levels of economic development in different locations.

 

Pursuant to the Social Insurance Law and the Regulations on Management of Housing Funds, an enterprise is required, within a prescribed time limit, to register with the relevant social security authority and housing fund management center, and to open the relevant accounts and make timely contributions for their employees; failure to do so may subject the enterprise to order for rectification, and certain fines if the enterprise fails to rectify in time. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not been paying the social insurance housing funds for our employees in full. Any failure to make sufficient provision of such outstanding amounts of contributions to such funds is a violation of applicable PRC laws and regulations and, if we could be required to make up the contributions and be subject to late fees, fines, and associated administrative penalties. As of September 30, 2021 and 2020, we had outstanding social insurance payments payable in the aggregate amount of approximately $54,784 and $39,182 , respectively. In the event that the relevant authorities determine that we have underpaid, our PRC Affiliated Entities may be required to pay outstanding contributions and penalties to the extent we did not make full contributions to the social security and housing provident funds. A late fee of 0.05% per day and a fine of one to three times the outstanding amount may be imposed by the authority, which may materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

With respect to housing fund, we may be required to pay and deposit housing funds in full and on time within the prescribed time limit. If we fail to do so, relevant authorities could file applications to competent courts for compulsory enforcement of payment and deposit.

 

PRC regulations relating to offshore investment activities by PRC residents may subject our PRC resident beneficial owners or our PRC subsidiaries to liability or penalties, limit our ability to inject capital into our PRC subsidiaries, limit our PRC subsidiaries’ ability to increase their registered capital or distribute profits to us, or may otherwise adversely affect us.

 

On July 4, 2014, State Administration of Foreign Exchange (“SAFE”) issued the Circular on Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Control over the Overseas Investment and Financing and Round-trip Investment by Domestic Residents via Special Purpose Vehicles, or “SAFE Circular 37.” According to SAFE Circular 37, prior registration with the local SAFE branch is required for PRC residents, (including PRC individuals and PRC corporate entities as well as foreign individuals that are deemed as PRC residents for foreign exchange administration purpose), in connection with their direct or indirect contribution of domestic assets or interests to offshore special purpose vehicles, or “SPVs.” SAFE Circular 37 further requires amendments to the SAFE registrations in the event of any changes with respect to the basic information of the offshore SPV, such as change of a PRC individual shareholder, name and operation term, or any significant changes with respect to the offshore SPV, such as an increase or decrease of capital contribution, share transfer or exchange, or mergers or divisions. SAFE Circular 37 is applicable to our shareholders who are PRC residents and may be applicable to any offshore acquisitions that we make in the future. In February 2015, SAFE promulgated a Notice on Further Simplifying and Improving Foreign Exchange Administration Policy on Direct Investment, or “SAFE Notice 13,” effective in June 2015. Under SAFE Notice 13, applications for foreign exchange registration of inbound foreign direct investments and outbound overseas direct investments, including those required under SAFE Circular 37, will be filed with qualified banks instead of SAFE. The qualified banks will directly examine the applications and accept registrations under the supervision of SAFE.

 

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In addition to SAFE Circular 37 and SAFE Notice 13, our ability to conduct foreign exchange activities in China may be subject to the interpretation and enforcement of the Implementation Rules of the Administrative Measures for Individual Foreign Exchange promulgated by SAFE in January 2007 (as amended and supplemented, the “Individual Foreign Exchange Rules”). Under the Individual Foreign Exchange Rules, any PRC individual seeking to make a direct investment overseas or engage in the issuance or trading of negotiable securities or derivatives overseas must make the appropriate registrations in accordance with SAFE provisions, the failure of which may subject such PRC individual to warnings, fines, or other liabilities.

 

All of the shareholders who are subject to the SAFE Circular 37 and Individual Foreign Exchange Rules, have completed the initial registrations with the qualified banks as required by the regulations. We may not be informed of the identities of all the PRC residents holding direct or indirect interest in our company, however, and we have no control over any of our future beneficial owners. Thus, we cannot provide any assurance that our current or future PRC resident beneficial owners will comply with our request to make or obtain any applicable registrations or continuously comply with all registration procedures set forth in these SAFE regulations. Such failure or inability of our PRC residents beneficial owners to comply with these SAFE regulations may subject us or our PRC resident beneficial owners to fines and legal sanctions, restrict our cross-border investment activities, or limit our PRC subsidiaries’ ability to distribute dividends to or obtain foreign-exchange-dominated loans from us, or prevent us from being able to make distributions or pay dividends, as a result of which our business operations and our ability to distribute profits to you could be materially and adversely affected.

 

We may rely on dividends and other distributions on equity paid by our PRC subsidiaries, through our Hong Kong subsidiaries, to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have, and any limitation on the ability of our PRC subsidiaries to make payments to us could have a material and adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business.

 

We are a Cayman Islands holding company and we rely principally on dividends and other distributions on equity from our PRC subsidiaries for our cash requirements, including for services of any debt we may incur. Our PRC subsidiaries’ ability to distribute dividends is based upon its distributable earnings. Current PRC regulations permit our PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to their respective shareholders only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. In addition, each of our PRC subsidiaries are required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund a statutory reserve until such reserve reaches 50% of its registered capital. Our PRC subsidiaries as FIE are also required to further set aside a portion of their after-tax profits to fund the employee welfare fund, although the amount to be set aside, if any, is determined at their discretion. These reserves are not distributable as cash dividends. If our PRC subsidiaries incur debt on their own behalf in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict their ability to pay dividends or make other payments to us. Any limitation on the ability of our PRC subsidiaries to distribute dividends or other payments to their respective shareholders could materially and adversely limit our ability to grow, make investments or acquisitions that could be beneficial to our businesses, pay dividends or otherwise fund and conduct our business.

 

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In addition, the Enterprise Income Tax Law and its implementation rules provide that a withholding tax rate of up to 10% will be applicable to dividends payable by Chinese companies to non-PRC-resident enterprises unless otherwise exempted or reduced according to treaties or arrangements between the PRC central government and governments of other countries or regions where the non-PRC resident enterprises are incorporated.

 

PRC regulation of parent/subsidiary loans and direct investment by offshore holding companies to PRC entities may delay or prevent us from using the proceeds of this offering to make loans or additional capital contributions to our PRC operating subsidiary, which could materially and adversely affect our liquidity and our ability to fund and expand our business.

 

Under PRC laws and regulations, we are permitted to utilize the proceeds from this offering to fund our PRC subsidiaries by making loans or providing additional capital contributions to our PRC subsidiaries, subject to applicable government registration, statutory limitations on amount, and approval requirements.

 

Any loans made to Golden Sun Wenzhou, which is treated as a foreign-invested enterprise under PRC law, are subject to PRC regulations and foreign exchange loan registrations. For example, loans made by us to Golden Sun Wenzhou to finance its activities cannot exceed statutory limits and must be registered with the local counterpart of SAFE, or filed with SAFE in its information system. Pursuant to relevant PRC regulations, we may provide loans to Golden Sun Wenzhou or Golden Sun Shanghai up to the larger amount of (i) the balance between the registered total investment amount and registered capital of Golden Sun Wenzhou, respectively, or (ii) twice the amount of the net assets of Golden Sun Wenzhou, respectively, calculated in accordance with the Circular on Full-Coverage Macro-Prudent Management of Cross-Border Financing, or the “PBOC Circular 9.” Moreover, any medium or long-term loan to be provided by us to Golden Sun Wenzhou or other domestic PRC entities must also be filed and registered with the NDRC. We may also decide to finance Golden Sun Wenzhou by means of capital contributions. These capital contributions must be recorded with the MOFCOM or its local counterpart.

 

On March 30, 2015, SAFE issued the Circular of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Reforming the Administrative Approach Regarding the Settlement of the Foreign Exchange Capital of Foreign-invested Enterprises, or “SAFE Circular 19,” which took effect and replaced previous regulations effective on June 1, 2015. Pursuant to SAFE Circular 19, up to 100% of foreign currency capital of a foreign-invested enterprise may be converted into RMB capital according to the actual operation, and within the business scope, of the enterprise at its will. Although SAFE Circular 19 allows for the use of RMB converted from the foreign currency-denominated capital for equity investments in the PRC, the restrictions continue to apply as to foreign-invested enterprises’ use of the converted RMB for purposes beyond their business scope, for entrusted loans or for inter-company RMB loans. On June 9, 2016, SAFE promulgated the Notice of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Reforming and Standardizing the Foreign Exchange Settlement Management Policy of Capital Account, or “SAFE Circular 16,” effective on June 9, 2016, which reiterates some rules set forth in Circular 19, but changes the prohibition against using RMB capital converted from foreign currency-denominated registered capital of a foreign-invested company to issue RMB entrusted loans to a prohibition against using such capital to issue loans to non-affiliated enterprises. On October 23, 2019, the SAFE issued the Notice of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Further Facilitating Cross-border Trade and Investment, which, among other things, expanded the use of foreign exchange capital to domestic equity investment area. Non-investment foreign-funded enterprises are allowed to lawfully make domestic equity investments by using their capital on the premise without violation to prevailing special administrative measures for access of foreign investments (negative list) and the authenticity and compliance with the regulations of domestic investment projects. If our PRC Affiliated Entities require financial support from us or our wholly owned subsidiary in the future and we find it necessary to use foreign currency-denominated capital to provide such financial support, our ability to fund our PRC Affiliated Entities’ operations will be subject to statutory limits and restrictions, including those described above.

 

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In light of the various requirements imposed by PRC regulations on loans to and direct investment in PRC entities by offshore holding companies, including SAFE Circular 19, SAFE Circular 16, and other relevant rules and regulations, we cannot assure you that we will be able to complete the necessary registrations or obtain the necessary government approvals on a timely basis, if at all, with respect to future loans to our PRC subsidiaries or future capital contributions by us to our PRC subsidiaries. If we fail to complete such registrations or obtain such approvals, our ability to use the proceeds we received or expect to receive from our offshore offerings and to capitalize or otherwise fund our PRC operations may be negatively affected, which could materially and adversely affect our business, including our liquidity and our ability to fund and expand our business.

 

Fluctuations in exchange rates could have a material and adverse effect on our results of operations and the value of your investment.

 

The value of the RMB against the U.S. dollar and other currencies may fluctuate and is affected by, among other things, changes in political and economic conditions in China and by China’s foreign exchange policies. On July 21, 2005, the PRC government changed its decade-old policy of pegging the value of the RMB to the U.S. dollar, and the RMB appreciated more than 20% against the U.S. dollar over the following three years. Between July 2008 and June 2010, this appreciation halted and the exchange rate between the RMB and the U.S. dollar remained within a narrow band. Since June 2010, the RMB has fluctuated against the U.S. dollar, at times significantly and unpredictably. It is difficult to predict how market forces or PRC or U.S. government policy may impact the exchange rate between the RMB and the U.S. dollar in the future.

 

Our business is conducted in the PRC, and our books and records are maintained in RMB, which is the currency of the PRC. The financial statements that we file with the SEC and provide to our shareholders are presented in U.S. dollars. Changes in the exchange rates between the RMB and U.S. dollar affect the value of our assets and the results of our operations, when presented in U.S. dollars. The value of the RMB against the U.S. dollar and other currencies may fluctuate and is affected by, among other things, changes in the PRC’s political and economic conditions and perceived changes in the economy of the PRC and the United States. Any significant revaluation of the RMB may materially and adversely affect our cash flows, revenue, and financial condition. Further, our Class A Ordinary Shares offered by this prospectus are offered in U.S. dollars, we will need to convert the net proceeds we receive into RMB in order to use the funds for our business. Changes in the conversion rate among the U.S. dollar and the RMB will affect the amount of proceeds we will have available for our business.

 

Very limited hedging options are available in China to reduce our exposure to exchange rate fluctuations. To date, we have not entered into any hedging transactions in an effort to reduce our exposure to foreign currency exchange risk. While we may decide to enter into more hedging transactions in the future, the availability and effectiveness of these hedges may be limited and we may not be able to adequately hedge our exposure or at all. In addition, our currency exchange losses may be magnified by PRC exchange control regulations that restrict our ability to convert RMB into foreign currency. As a result, fluctuations in exchange rates may have a material adverse effect on your investment.

 

There are uncertainties under the PRC Securities Law relating to the procedures and requisite timing for the U.S. securities regulatory agencies to conduct investigations and collect evidence within the territory of the PRC.

 

On December 28, 2019, the newly amended Securities Law of the PRC (the “PRC Securities Law”) was promulgated, which became effective on March 1, 2020. According to Article 177 of the PRC Securities Law (“Article 177”), the securities regulatory authority of the State Council may establish a regulatory cooperation mechanism with securities regulatory authorities of another country or region for the implementation of cross-border supervision and administration. Article 177 further provides that overseas securities regulatory authorities shall not engage in activities pertaining to investigations or evidence collection directly conducted within the territories of the PRC, and that no Chinese entities or individuals shall provide documents and information in connection with securities business activities to any organizations and/or persons aboard without the prior consent of the securities regulatory authority of the State Council and the competent departments of the State Council. As of the date of this prospectus, we are not aware of any implementing rules or regulations which have been published regarding application of Article 177.

 

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As advised by our PRC counsel, Article 177 is only applicable where the activities of overseas authorities constitute a direct investigation or evidence collection by such authorities within the territory of the PRC. Our principal business operation is conducted in the PRC. In the event that the U.S. securities regulatory agencies carry out an investigation on us, such as an enforcement action by the Department of Justice, the SEC or other authorities, such agencies’ activities will constitute an investigation or evidence collection directly within the territory of the PRC and, accordingly, will fall within the scope of Article 177. In that case, the U.S. securities regulatory agencies may have to consider establishing cross-border cooperation with the securities regulatory authority of the PRC by way of judicial assistance, diplomatic channels or establishing a regulatory cooperation mechanism with the securities regulatory authority of the PRC. However, there is no assurance that the U.S. securities regulatory agencies will succeed in establishing such cross-border cooperation in this particular case and/or establish such cooperation in a timely manner.

 

Furthermore, as Article 177 is a recently promulgated provision and, as the date of this prospectus, there have not been implementing rules or regulations regarding the application of Article 177, it remains unclear as to how it will be interpreted, implemented or applied by the CSRC or other relevant government authorities. As such, there are uncertainties as to the procedures and requisite timing for the U.S. securities regulatory agencies to conduct investigations and collect evidence within the territory of the PRC. If the U.S. securities regulatory agencies are unable to conduct such investigations, there exists a risk that they may determine to suspend or de-register our registration with the SEC and may also delist our securities from Nasdaq or other applicable trading market within the US.

 

Under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, we may be classified as a PRC “resident enterprise” for PRC enterprise income tax purposes. Such classification would likely result in unfavorable tax consequences to us and our non-PRC shareholders and have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and the value of your investment.

 

Under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, or the “EIT Law,” that became effective in January 2008, an enterprise established outside the PRC with “de facto management bodies” within the PRC is considered a “resident enterprise” for PRC enterprise income tax purposes and is generally subject to a uniform 25% enterprise income tax rate on its worldwide income. Under the implementation rules to the EIT Law, a “de facto management body” is defined as a body that has material and overall management and control over the manufacturing and business operations, personnel and human resources, finances, and properties of an enterprise. In addition, a circular, known as SAT Circular 82, issued in April 2009 by the State Administration of Taxation, or the “SAT,” specifies that certain offshore incorporated enterprises controlled by PRC enterprises or PRC enterprise groups will be classified as PRC resident enterprises if the following are located or resident in the PRC: senior management personnel and departments that are responsible for daily production, operation and management; financial and personnel decision making bodies; key properties, accounting books, company seal, and minutes of board meetings and shareholders’ meetings; and half or more of the senior management or directors having voting rights. Further to SAT Circular 82, the SAT issued a bulletin, known as SAT Bulletin 45, which took effect in September 2011, to provide more guidance on the implementation of SAT Circular 82 and clarify the reporting and filing obligations of such “Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated resident enterprises.” SAT Bulletin 45 provides procedures and administrative details for the determination of resident status and administration on post-determination matters. Although both SAT Circular 82 and SAT Bulletin 45 only apply to offshore enterprises controlled by PRC enterprises or PRC enterprise groups, not those controlled by PRC individuals or foreign individuals, the determining criteria set forth in SAT Circular 82 and SAT Bulletin 45 may reflect the SAT’s general position on how the “de facto management body” test should be applied in determining the tax resident status of offshore enterprises, regardless of whether they are controlled by PRC enterprises, PRC enterprise groups, or by PRC or foreign individuals.

 

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If the PRC tax authorities determine that the actual management organ of Golden Sun Cayman is within the territory of China, Golden Sun Cayman may be deemed to be a PRC resident enterprise for PRC enterprise income tax purposes and a number of unfavorable PRC tax consequences could follow. First, we will be subject to the uniform 25% enterprise income tax on our world-wide income, which could materially reduce our net income. In addition, we will also be subject to PRC enterprise income tax reporting obligations. Finally, dividends payable by us to our investors and gains on the sale of our shares may become subject to PRC withholding tax, at a rate of 10% in the case of non-PRC enterprises or 20% in the case of non-PRC individuals (in each case, subject to the provisions of any applicable tax treaty), if such gains are deemed to be from PRC sources. It is unclear whether non-PRC shareholders of our company would be able to claim the benefits of any tax treaties between their country of tax residence and the PRC in the event that we are treated as a PRC resident enterprise. Any such tax may reduce the returns on your investment in our shares. Although up to the date of this prospectus, Golden Sun Cayman has not been notified or informed by the PRC tax authorities that it has been deemed to be a resident enterprise for the purpose of the EIT Law, we cannot assure you that it will not be deemed to be a resident enterprise in the future.

 

We face uncertainty with respect to indirect transfers of equity interests in PRC resident enterprises by their non-PRC holding companies.

 

In February 2015, SAT issued a Public Notice Regarding Certain Corporate Income Tax Matters on Indirect Transfer of Properties by Non-Tax Resident Enterprises, or “SAT Circular 7.” SAT Circular 7 provides comprehensive guidelines relating to indirect transfers of PRC taxable assets (including equity interests and real properties of a PRC resident enterprise) by a non-resident enterprise. In addition, in October 2017, SAT issued an Announcement on Issues Relating to Withholding at Source of Income Tax of Non-resident Enterprises, or “SAT Circular 37,” effective in December 2017, which, among others, amended certain provisions in SAT Circular 7 and further clarify the tax payable declaration obligation by non-resident enterprise. Indirect transfer of equity interest and/or real properties in a PRC resident enterprise by their non-PRC holding companies are subject to SAT Circular 7 and SAT Circular 37.

 

SAT Circular 7 provides clear criteria for an assessment of reasonable commercial purposes and has introduced safe harbors for internal group restructurings and the purchase and sale of equity through a public securities market. As stipulated in SAT Circular 7, indirect transfers of PRC taxable assets are considered as reasonable commercial purposes if the shareholding structure of both transaction parties falls within the following situations: i) the transferor directly or indirectly owns 80% or above equity interest of the transferee, or vice versa; ii) the transferor and the transferee are both 80% or above directly or indirectly owned by the same party; iii) the percentages in bullet points i) and ii) shall be 100% if over 50% the share value of a foreign enterprise is directly or indirectly derived from PRC real properties. Furthermore, SAT Circular 7 also brings challenges to both foreign transferor and transferee (or other person who is obligated to pay for the transfer) of taxable assets. Where a non-resident enterprise transfers PRC taxable assets indirectly by disposing of the equity interests of an overseas holding company, which is an indirect transfer, the non-resident enterprise as either transferor or transferee, or the PRC entity that directly owns the taxable assets, may report such indirect transfer to the relevant tax authority and the PRC tax authority may disregard the existence of the overseas holding company if it lacks a reasonable commercial purpose and was established for the purpose of reducing, avoiding, or deferring PRC tax. As a result, gains derived from such indirect transfer may be subject to PRC enterprise income tax, and the transferee or other person who is obligated to pay for the transfer is obligated to withhold the applicable taxes, currently at a rate of 10% for the transfer of equity interests in a PRC resident enterprise. Both the transferor and the transferee may be subject to penalties under PRC tax laws if the transferee fails to withhold the taxes and the transferor fails to pay the taxes.

 

According to SAT Circular 37, where the non-resident enterprise fails to declare the tax payable pursuant to Article 39 of the EIT Law, the tax authority may order it to pay the tax due within required time limits, and the non-resident enterprise shall declare and pay the tax payable within such time limits specified by the tax authority. If the non-resident enterprise, however, voluntarily declares and pays the tax payable before the tax authority orders it to do so within required time limits, it shall be deemed that such enterprise has paid the tax in time.

 

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We face uncertainties as to the reporting and assessment of reasonable commercial purposes and future transactions where PRC taxable assets are involved, such as offshore restructuring, sale of the shares in our offshore subsidiaries, and investments. In the event of being assessed as having no reasonable commercial purposes in an indirect transfer transaction, we may be subject to filing obligations or taxed if we are a transferor in such transactions, and may be subject to withholding obligations (to be specific, a 10% withholding tax for the transfer of equity interests) if we are a transferee in such transactions, under SAT Circular 7 and SAT Circular 37. For transfer of shares by investors who are non-PRC resident enterprises, our PRC subsidiaries may be requested to assist in the filing under the SAT circulars. As a result, we may be required to expend valuable resources to comply with the SAT circulars or to request the relevant transferors from whom we purchase taxable assets to comply with these circulars, or to establish that we should not be taxed under these circulars, which may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

 

To the extent cash or assets of our business, or of our PRC or Hong Kong subsidiaries, is in the PRC or Hong Kong, such cash or assets may not be available to fund operations or for other use outside of the PRC or Hong Kong, due to interventions in or the imposition of restrictions and limitations by the PRC government to the transfer of cash or assets.

 

The transfer of funds and assets among Golden Sun Cayman, its Hong Kong and PRC subsidiaries is subject to restrictions. The PRC government imposes controls on the conversion of the RMB into foreign currencies and the remittance of currencies out of the PRC. See “Risk Factors – Governmental control of currency conversion may affect the value of your investment and our payment of dividends.” In addition, the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law and its implementation rules provide that a withholding tax at a rate of 10% will be applicable to dividends payable by Chinese companies to non-PRC-resident enterprises, unless reduced under treaties or arrangements between the PRC central government and the governments of other countries or regions where the non-PRC resident enterprises are tax resident. See “Risk Factors - Our PRC subsidiaries are subject to restrictions on paying dividends or making other payments to us, which may have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business.”

 

As of the date of this prospectus, there are no restrictions or limitations imposed by the Hong Kong government on the transfer of capital within, into and out of Hong Kong (including funds from Hong Kong to the PRC), except for the transfer of funds involving money laundering and criminal activities. However, there is no guarantee that the Hong Kong government will not promulgate new laws or regulations that may impose such restrictions in the future.

 

As a result of the above, to the extent cash or assets of our business, or of our PRC or Hong Kong subsidiaries, is in the PRC or Hong Kong, such funds or assets may not be available to fund operations or for other use outside of the PRC or Hong Kong, due to interventions in or the imposition of restrictions and limitations by the PRC government to the transfer of cash or assets.

 

Our PRC subsidiaries are subject to restrictions on paying dividends or making other payments to us, which may have a material adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business.

 

We are a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. We may need dividends and other distributions on equity from our PRC subsidiaries to satisfy our liquidity requirements, including the funds necessary to pay dividends and other cash distributions to our shareholders and service any debt we may incur. If our PRC subsidiaries incur debt on their own behalf in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict their ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to us.

 

Current PRC regulations permit our PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to us only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. In addition, our PRC subsidiaries are required to set aside at least 10% of their respective accumulated profits each year, if any, to fund certain reserve funds until the total amount set aside reaches 50% of their respective registered capital. Our PRC subsidiaries may also allocate a portion of their respective after-tax profits based on PRC accounting standards to employee welfare and bonus funds at their discretion. These reserves are not distributable as cash dividends. These limitation on the ability of our PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends or make other distributions to us could materially and adversely limit our ability to grow, make investments, or acquisitions that could be beneficial to our business, pay dividends, or otherwise fund and conduct our business.

 

Governmental control of currency conversion may affect the value of your investment and our payment of dividends.

 

The PRC government imposes controls on the convertibility of the RMB into foreign currencies and, in certain cases, the remittance of currency out of China. We receive substantially all of our revenue in the RMB. Under our current corporate structure, Golden Sun Cayman may rely on dividend payments from our PRC subsidiaries, Golden Sun Wenzhou and Golden Sun Shanghai, to fund any cash and financing requirements we may have. Under existing PRC foreign exchange regulations, payments of current account items, such as profit distributions and trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions, can be made in foreign currencies without prior approval from SAFE by complying with certain procedural requirements. Therefore, our PRC subsidiaries are able to pay dividends in foreign currencies to us without prior approval from SAFE, subject to the condition that the remittance of such dividends outside of the PRC complies with certain procedures under PRC foreign exchange regulations, such as the overseas investment registrations by our shareholders or the ultimate shareholders of our corporate shareholders who are PRC residents. Approval from or registration with appropriate government authorities is, however, required where the RMB is to be converted into foreign currency and remitted out of China to pay capital expenses such as the repayment of loans denominated in foreign currencies. The PRC government may also at its discretion restrict access in the future to foreign currencies for current account transactions. If the foreign exchange control system prevents us from obtaining sufficient foreign currencies to satisfy our foreign currency demand, we may not be able to pay dividends in foreign currencies to our shareholders.

 

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There are significant uncertainties under the EIT Law relating to the withholding tax liabilities of Golden Sun Wenzhou, and dividends payable by Golden Sun Wenzhou to our offshore subsidiaries may not qualify to enjoy certain treaty benefits.

 

Under the EIT Law and its implementation rules, the profits of a foreign-invested enterprise generated through operations, which are distributed to its immediate holding company outside the PRC, will be subject to a withholding tax rate of 10%. Pursuant to the Arrangement between the Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and Tax Evasion on Income, or the “Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement,” a withholding tax rate of 10% may be lowered to 5% if the PRC enterprise is at least 25% held by a Hong Kong enterprise for at least 12 consecutive months prior to distribution of the dividends and is determined by the relevant PRC tax authority to have satisfied other conditions and requirements under the Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement and other applicable PRC laws.

 

However, based on the Circular on Certain Issues with Respect to the Enforcement of Dividend Provisions in Tax Treaties, or the “SAT Circular 81,” which became effective on February 20, 2009, if the relevant PRC tax authorities determine, in their discretion, that a company benefits from such reduced income tax rate due to a structure or arrangement that is primarily tax-driven, such PRC tax authorities may adjust the preferential tax treatment. According to Circular on Several Issues regarding the “Beneficial Owner” in Tax Treaties, which became effective as of April 1, 2018, when determining an applicant’s status as the “beneficial owner” regarding tax treatments in connection with dividends, interests, or royalties in the tax treaties, several factors will be taken into account. Such factors include whether the business operated by the applicant constitutes actual business activities, and whether the counterparty country or region to the tax treaties does not levy any tax, grant tax exemption on relevant incomes, or levy tax at an extremely low rate. This circular further requires any applicant who intends to be proved of being the “beneficial owner” to file relevant documents with the relevant tax authorities. Golden Sun Wenzhou is wholly owned by our Hong Kong subsidiary. However, we cannot assure you that our determination regarding our qualification to enjoy the preferential tax treatment will not be challenged by the relevant PRC tax authority or we will be able to complete the necessary filings with the relevant PRC tax authority and enjoy the preferential withholding tax rate of 5% under the Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement with respect to dividends to be paid by Golden Sun Wenzhou to our Hong Kong subsidiary, in which case, we would be subject to the higher withdrawing tax rate of 10% on dividends received.

 

If we become directly subject to the scrutiny, criticism, and negative publicity involving U.S.-listed Chinese companies, we may have to expend significant resources to investigate and resolve the matter which could harm our business operations, stock price, and reputation.

 

U.S. public companies that have substantially all of their operations in China have been the subject of intense scrutiny, criticism, and negative publicity by investors, financial commentators, and regulatory agencies, such as the SEC. Much of the scrutiny, criticism, and negative publicity has centered on financial and accounting irregularities and mistakes, a lack of effective internal controls over financial accounting, inadequate corporate governance policies or a lack of adherence thereto and, in many cases, allegations of fraud. As a result of the scrutiny, criticism, and negative publicity, the publicly traded stock of many U.S. listed Chinese companies sharply decreased in value and, in some cases, has become virtually worthless. Many of these companies are now subject to shareholder lawsuits and SEC enforcement actions and are conducting internal and external investigations into the allegations. It is not clear what effect this sector-wide scrutiny, criticism, and negative publicity will have on us, our business, and the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares. If we become the subject of any unfavorable allegations, whether such allegations are proven to be true or untrue, we will have to expend significant resources to investigate such allegations and/or defend our company. This situation will be costly and time consuming and distract our management from developing our business. If such allegations are not proven to be groundless, we and our business operations will be severely affected and you could sustain a significant decline in the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

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The disclosures in our reports and other filings with the SEC and our other public pronouncements are not subject to the scrutiny of any regulatory bodies in the PRC.

 

We are regulated by the SEC, and our reports and other filings with the SEC are subject to SEC review in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. Our SEC reports and other disclosure and public pronouncements are not subject to the review or scrutiny of any PRC regulatory authority. For example, the disclosure in our SEC reports and other filings are not subject to the review by CSRC, a PRC regulator that is responsible for oversight of the capital markets in China. Accordingly, you should review our SEC reports, filings, and our other public pronouncements with the understanding that no local regulator has done any review of us, our SEC reports, other filings, or any of our other public pronouncements.

 

The approval of the CSRC may be required in connection with this offering under a regulation adopted in August 2006, and, if required, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain such approval, in which case we may face sanctions by the CSRC or other PRC regulatory agencies for failure to seek the CSRC approval for this offering.

  

The Regulations on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Companies by Foreign Investors, or the “M&A Rules,” adopted by six PRC regulatory agencies in 2006 and amended in 2009, requires an overseas SPV formed for listing purposes through acquisitions of PRC domestic companies and controlled by PRC companies or individuals to obtain the approval of the CSRC, prior to the listing and trading of such SPV’s securities on an overseas stock exchange. In September 2006, the CSRC published a notice on its official website specifying documents and materials required to be submitted to it by an SPV seeking the CSRC approval of its overseas listings. The application of the M&A Rules remains unclear.

 

Our PRC legal counsel has advised us based on their understanding of the current PRC law, rules, and regulations that the CSRC’s approval is not required for the listing and trading of our shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market in the context of this offering, given that we established our PRC subsidiaries by means of direct investment rather than by merger with or acquisition of PRC domestic companies as defined in the M&A Rules.

 

Our PRC legal counsel, however, has further advised us that there remains some uncertainty as to how the M&A Rules will be interpreted or implemented in the context of an overseas offering and its opinions summarized above are subject to any new laws, rules and regulations or detailed implementations and interpretations in any form relating to the M&A Rules. We cannot assure you that relevant PRC governmental agencies, including the CSRC, would reach the same conclusion as we do. If it is determined that the CSRC approval is required for this offering, we may face sanctions by the CSRC or other PRC regulatory agencies for failure to seek the CSRC approval for this offering. These sanctions may include fines and penalties on our operations in the PRC, limitations on our operating privileges in the PRC, delays in or restrictions on the repatriation of the proceeds from this offering into the PRC, restrictions on or prohibition of the payments or remittance of dividends by our PRC subsidiaries, or other actions that could have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, reputation, and prospects, as well as the trading price of our Class A Ordinary Shares. The CSRC or other PRC regulatory agencies may also take actions requiring us, or making it advisable for us, to halt this offering before the settlement and delivery of the Shares that we are offering. Consequently, if you engage in market trading or other activities in anticipation of and prior to the settlement and delivery of the shares we are offering, you would be doing so at the risk that the settlement and delivery may not occur.

 

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The M&A Rules and certain other PRC regulations establish complex procedures for some acquisitions of Chinese companies by foreign investors, which could make it more difficult for us to pursue growth through acquisitions in China.

 

The M&A Rules discussed in the preceding risk factor and recently adopted regulations and rules concerning mergers and acquisitions established additional procedures and requirements that could make merger and acquisition activities by foreign investors more time consuming and complex. For example, the M&A Rules require that the Ministry of Commerce be notified in advance of any change-of-control transaction in which a foreign investor takes control of a PRC domestic enterprise, if (i) any important industry is concerned, (ii) such transaction involves factors that have or may have impact on the national economic security, or (iii) such transaction will lead to a change in control of a domestic enterprise which holds a famous trademark or PRC time-honored brand. Mergers or acquisitions that allow one market player to take control of or to exert decisive impact on another market player must also be notified in advance to the Ministry of Commerce when the threshold under the Provisions on Thresholds for Prior Notification of Concentrations of Undertakings, or the “Prior Notification Rules,” issued by the State Council in August 2008 is triggered. In addition, the security review rules issued by the Ministry of Commerce that became effective in September 2011 specify that mergers and acquisitions by foreign investors that raise “national defense and security” concerns and mergers and acquisitions through which foreign investors may acquire de facto control over domestic enterprises that raise “national security” concerns are subject to strict review by the Ministry of Commerce, and the rules prohibit any activities attempting to bypass a security review, including by structuring the transaction through a proxy or contractual control arrangement. In the future, we may grow our business by acquiring complementary businesses. Complying with the requirements of the above-mentioned regulations and other relevant rules to complete such transactions could be time consuming, and any required approval processes, including obtaining approval from the Ministry of Commerce or its local counterparts may delay or inhibit our ability to complete such transactions. It is clear that our business would not be deemed to be in an industry that raises “national defense and security” or “national security” concerns. The Ministry of Commerce or other government agencies, however, may publish explanations in the future determining that our business is in an industry subject to the security review, in which case our future acquisitions in the PRC, including those by way of entering into contractual control arrangements with target entities, may be closely scrutinized or prohibited. Our ability to expand our business or maintain or expand our market share through future acquisitions would as such be materially and adversely affected.

 

Risks Relating to this Offering and the Trading Market

 

There has been no public market for our Class A Ordinary Shares prior to this offering, and you may not be able to resell our Class A Ordinary Shares at or above the price you pay for them, or at all.

 

Prior to this offering, there has not been a public market for our Class A Ordinary Shares. We plan to apply for the listing of our Class A Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market. An active public market for our Class A Ordinary Shares, however, may not develop or be sustained after the offering, in which case the market price and liquidity of our Class A Ordinary Shares will be materially and adversely affected.

 

The initial public offering price for our Class A Ordinary Shares may not be indicative of prices that will prevail in the trading market and such market prices may be volatile.

 

The initial public offering price for our Class A Ordinary Shares will be determined by negotiations between us and the Underwriter, and may not bear a direct relationship to our earnings, book value, or any other indicia of value. We cannot assure you that the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares will not decline significantly below the initial public offering price. The financial markets in the United States and other countries have experienced significant price and volume fluctuations in the last few years. Volatility in the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares may be caused by factors outside of our control and may be unrelated or disproportionate to changes in our results of operations.

 

You will experience immediate and substantial dilution in the net tangible book value of Class A Ordinary Shares purchased.

 

The initial public offering price of our Class A Ordinary Shares is substantially higher than the (pro forma) net tangible book value per share of our Class A Ordinary Shares. Consequently, when you purchase our Class A Ordinary Shares in the offering, upon completion of the offering you will incur immediate dilution of $3.86 per share if the over-allotment option is not exercised or $3.73 per share if the over-allotment option is fully exercised, assuming an initial public offering price of $4.5. See “Dilution.” In addition, you may experience further dilution to the extent that additional Class A Ordinary Shares are issued upon exercise of outstanding options we may grant from time to time.

 

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If we fail to implement and maintain an effective system of internal controls or fail to remediate the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting that have been identified, we may fail to meet our reporting obligations or be unable to accurately report our results of operations or prevent fraud, and investor confidence and the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares may be materially and adversely affected.

 

Prior to this offering, we have been a private company with limited accounting personnel and other resources with which to address our internal controls and procedures. Our independent registered public accounting firm has not conducted an audit of our internal control over financial reporting. However, in preparing our consolidated financial statements as of and for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, we and our independent registered public accounting firm have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, as defined in the standards established by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board of the United States, or “PCAOB,” and other control deficiencies. The material weaknesses identified included (i) a lack of accounting staff and resources with appropriate knowledge of U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting and compliance requirements; and (ii) a lack of independent directors and an audit committee. Following the identification of the material weaknesses and control deficiencies, we plan to continue to take remedial measures including (i) hiring more qualified accounting personnel with relevant U.S. GAAP and SEC reporting experience and qualifications to strengthen the financial reporting function and to set up a financial and system control framework; (ii) implementing regular and continuous U.S. GAAP accounting and financial reporting training programs for our accounting and financial reporting personnel; (iii) setting up an internal audit function as well as engaging an external consulting firm to assist us with assessment of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance requirements and improvement of overall internal control; and (iv) appointing independent directors, establishing an audit committee, and strengthening corporate governance. However, the implementation of these measures may not fully address the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. Our failure to correct the material weaknesses or our failure to discover and address any other material weaknesses or control deficiencies could result in inaccuracies in our financial statements and could also impair our ability to comply with applicable financial reporting requirements and related regulatory filings on a timely basis. As a result, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects, as well as the trading price of our Class A Ordinary Shares, may be materially and adversely affected. Moreover, ineffective internal control over financial reporting significantly hinders our ability to prevent fraud.

 

Upon completion of this offering, we will become a public company in the United States subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 will require that we include a report of management on our internal control over financial reporting in our annual report on Form 20-F beginning with our annual report for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022. In addition, once we cease to be an “emerging growth company,” as such term is defined in the JOBS Act, our independent registered public accounting firm must attest to and report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. Our management may conclude that our internal control over financial reporting is not effective. Moreover, even if our management concludes that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, our independent registered public accounting firm, after conducting its own independent testing, may issue a report that is qualified if it is not satisfied with our internal controls or the level at which our controls are documented, designed, operated, or reviewed, or if it interprets the relevant requirements differently from us. In addition, after we become a public company, our reporting obligations may place a significant strain on our management, operational, and financial resources and systems for the foreseeable future. We may be unable to complete our evaluation testing and any required remediation in a timely manner.

 

We will incur substantial increased costs as a result of being a public company.

 

Upon consummation of this offering, we will incur significant legal, accounting, and other expenses as a public company that we did not incur as a private company. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as rules subsequently implemented by the SEC and Nasdaq, impose various requirements on the corporate governance practices of public companies.

 

Compliance with these rules and regulations increases our legal and financial compliance costs and makes some corporate activities more time-consuming and costlier. We have incurred additional costs in obtaining director and officer liability insurance. In addition, we incur additional costs associated with our public company reporting requirements. It may also be more difficult for us to find qualified persons to serve on our board of directors or as executive officers.

 

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We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act and will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) the last day of the fiscal year (a) following the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering, (b) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion, or (c) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which means the market value of our Class A Ordinary Shares that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the prior September 30, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt during the prior three-year period. An emerging growth company may take advantage of specified reduced reporting and other requirements that are otherwise applicable generally to public companies. These provisions include exemption from the auditor attestation requirement under Section 404 in the assessment of the emerging growth company’s internal control over financial reporting and permission to delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies.

 

After we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” or until five years following the completion of our initial public offering, whichever is earlier, we expect to incur significant additional expenses and devote substantial management effort toward ensuring compliance with the requirements of Section 404 and the other rules and regulations of the SEC. For example, as a public company, we have been required to increase the number of independent directors and adopt policies regarding internal controls and disclosure controls and procedures.

 

We are currently evaluating and monitoring developments with respect to these rules and regulations, and we cannot predict or estimate with any degree of certainty the amount of additional costs we may incur or the timing of such costs.

 

Our dual class share structure will concentrate a majority of voting power in our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, who is the only owner of our Class B Ordinary Shares.

 

Our Class B Ordinary Shares have five votes per share, and our Class A Ordinary Shares, which are the shares we are offering pursuant to this prospectus, have one vote per share, on all matters subject to vote at general meetings of the Company. Following this offering, assuming the underwriter does not exercise its over-allotment option, Mr. Xueyuan Weng, our Chairman and CEO, will beneficially hold in the aggregate 59% to 60% of the total votes for our total issued and outstanding share capital, depending on whether the underwriter exercises its over-allotment option or not. Because of the five-to-one voting ratio between our Class B Ordinary Shares and Class A Ordinary Shares, the holder of our Class B Ordinary Shares could collectively control a majority of the aggregate voting power of our issued Ordinary Shares and therefore be able to control all matters submitted to our shareholders for approval. This concentrated control may limit or preclude your ability to influence corporate matters for the foreseeable future, including the election of directors, amendments of our organizational documents, and any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or other major corporate actions requiring shareholder approval. In addition, this may prevent or discourage unsolicited acquisition proposals or offers for our share capital that you may feel are in your best interest as one of our shareholders. Such concentration of voting power could also have the effect of delaying, deterring, or preventing a change of control or other business combination, which could, in turn, have an adverse effect on the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares or prevent our shareholders from realizing a premium over the then-prevailing market price for their Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

As a “controlled company” within the meaning of the Nasdaq listing rules, we may follow certain exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements that could adversely affect our public shareholders.

 

Following this offering, our largest shareholder will own more than a majority of the voting power of our outstanding ordinary shares. Under the Nasdaq listing rules, a company of which more than 50% of the voting power is held by an individual, group, or another company is a “controlled company” and is permitted to phase in its compliance with the independent committee requirements. Although we do not intend to rely on the “controlled company” exemptions under the Nasdaq listing rules even if we are deemed a “controlled company,” we could elect to rely on these exemptions in the future. If we were to elect to rely on the “controlled company” exemptions, a majority of the members of our board of directors might not be independent directors and our nominating and corporate governance and compensation committees might not consist entirely of independent directors. Accordingly, if we rely on the exemptions, during the period we remain a controlled company and during any transition period following a time when we are no longer a controlled company, you would not have the same protections afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to all of the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq.

 

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Substantial future sales of our Class A Ordinary Shares or the anticipation of future sales of our Class A Ordinary Shares in the public market could cause the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares to decline.

 

Sales of substantial amounts of our Class A Ordinary Shares in the public market after this offering, or the perception that these sales could occur, could cause the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares to decline. As of the date of this prospectus, an aggregate of 13,000,000 Ordinary Shares are outstanding, including 8,970,000 Class A Ordinary Shares and 4,030,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, before the consummation of this offering and 13,370,000 Class A Ordinary Shares will be outstanding immediately after the consummation of this offering if the Underwriter’s over-allotment option is not exercised, and 14,030,000 Class A Ordinary Shares will be outstanding immediately after the consummation of this offering if the Underwriter’s over-allotment option is fully exercised. Sales of these shares into the market could cause the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares to decline.

 

We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future.

 

We currently intend to retain any future earnings to finance the operation and expansion of our business, and we do not expect to declare or pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. As a result, you may only receive a return on your investment in our Class A Ordinary Shares if the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares increases.

 

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or if the publish a negative report regarding our Class A Ordinary Shares, the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares and trading volume could decline.

 

Any trading market for our Class A Ordinary Shares may depend in part on the research and reports that industry or securities analysts publish about us or our business. We do not have any control over these analysts. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade us, the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares and the trading volume to decline.

 

The market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares may be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance, and you may not be able to resell your shares at or above the initial public offering price.

 

The initial public offering price for our Class A Ordinary Shares will be determined through negotiations between the Underwriter and us and may vary from the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares following our initial public offering. If you purchase our Class A Ordinary Shares in our initial public offering, you may not be able to resell those shares at or above the initial public offering price. We cannot assure you that the initial public offering price of our Class A Ordinary Shares, or the market price following our initial public offering, will equal or exceed prices in privately negotiated transactions of our shares that have occurred from time to time prior to our initial public offering. The market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares may fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:

 

  actual or anticipated fluctuations in our revenue and other operating results;
     
  the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet these projections;
     
  actions of securities analysts who initiate or maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;

 

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  announcements by us or our competitors of significant products or features, technical innovations, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, or capital commitments;
     
  price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole;
     
  lawsuits threatened or filed against us; and
     
  other events or factors, including those resulting from war or incidents of terrorism, or responses to these events.

 

In addition, the stock markets have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many companies. Stock prices of many companies have fluctuated in a manner unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. In the past, shareholders have filed securities class action litigation following periods of market volatility. If we were to become involved in securities litigation, it could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from our business, and adversely affect our business.

 

Our management has broad discretion to determine how to use the funds raised in the offering and may use them in ways that may not enhance our results of operations or the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

We anticipate that we will use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and other corporate purposes. Our management will have significant discretion as to the use of the net proceeds to us from this offering and could spend the proceeds in ways that do not improve our results of operations or enhance the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

If we cease to qualify as a foreign private issuer, we would be required to comply fully with the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, and we would incur significant additional legal, accounting and other expenses that we would not incur as a foreign private issuer.

 

We expect to qualify as a foreign private issuer upon the completion of this offering. As a foreign private issuer, we will be exempt from the rules under the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of proxy statements, and our officers, directors and principal shareholders will be exempt from the reporting and short-swing profit recovery provisions contained in Section 16 of the Exchange Act. In addition, we will not be required under the Exchange Act to file periodic reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as United States domestic issuers, and we will not be required to disclose in our periodic reports all of the information that United States domestic issuers are required to disclose. While we currently expect to qualify as a foreign private issuer immediately following the completion of this offering, we may cease to qualify as a foreign private issuer in the future, in which case we would incur significant additional expenses that could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

 

Because we are a foreign private issuer and are exempt from certain Nasdaq corporate governance standards applicable to U.S. issuers, you will have less protection than you would have if we were a domestic issuer.

 

Nasdaq listing rules require listed companies to have, among other things, a majority of its board members be independent. As a foreign private issuer, however, we are permitted to, and we may follow home country practice in lieu of the above requirements, or we may choose to comply with the above requirement within one year of listing. The corporate governance practice in our home country, the Cayman Islands, does not require a majority of our board to consist of independent directors. Thus, although a director must act in the best interests of the Company, it is possible that fewer board members will be exercising independent judgment and the level of board oversight on the management of our company may decrease as a result. In addition, Nasdaq listing rules also require U.S. domestic issuers to have a compensation committee, a nominating/corporate governance committee composed entirely of independent directors, and an audit committee with a minimum of three members. We, as a foreign private issuer, are not subject to these requirements. Nasdaq listing rules may require shareholder approval for certain corporate matters, such as requiring that shareholders be given the opportunity to vote on all equity compensation plans and material revisions to those plans, certain ordinary share issuances. We intend to comply with the requirements of Nasdaq listing rules in determining whether shareholder approval is required on such matters and to appoint a nominating and corporate governance committee. We may, however, consider following home country practice in lieu of the requirements under Nasdaq listing rules with respect to certain corporate governance standards which may afford less protection to investors.

 

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Although as a Foreign Private Issuer we are exempt from certain corporate governance standards applicable to U.S. issuers, if we cannot satisfy, or continue to satisfy, the initial listing requirements and other rules of the Nasdaq Capital Market, our securities may not be listed or may be delisted, which could negatively impact the price of our securities and your ability to sell them.

 

We will seek to have our securities approved for listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market upon consummation of this offering. We cannot assure you that we will be able to meet those initial listing requirements at that time. Even if our securities are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we cannot assure you that our securities will continue to be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market.

 

In addition, following this offering, in order to maintain our listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we will be required to comply with certain rules of the Nasdaq Capital Market, including those regarding minimum shareholders’ equity, minimum share price, minimum market value of publicly held shares, and various additional requirements. Even if we initially meet the listing requirements and other applicable rules of the Nasdaq Capital Market, we may not be able to continue to satisfy these requirements and applicable rules. If we are unable to satisfy the Nasdaq Capital Market criteria for maintaining our listing, our securities could be subject to delisting.

 

If the Nasdaq Capital Market does not list our securities, or subsequently delists our securities from trading, we could face significant consequences, including:

 

  a limited availability for market quotations for our securities;
     
  reduced liquidity with respect to our securities;
     
  a determination that our Class A Ordinary Share is a “penny stock,” which will require brokers trading in our Class A Ordinary Share to adhere to more stringent rules and possibly result in a reduced level of trading activity in the secondary trading market for our Class A Ordinary Share;
     
  limited amount of news and analyst coverage; and
     
  a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.

 

Anti-takeover provisions in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association may discourage, delay, or prevent a change in control.

 

Some provisions of our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, which will become effective on or before the completion of this offering, may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company or management that shareholders may consider favorable, including, among other things, the following:

 

  provisions that authorize our board of directors to issue shares with preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions without any further vote or action by our shareholders; and
     
  provisions that restrict the ability of our shareholders to call meetings and to propose special matters for consideration at shareholder meetings.

 

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Our board of directors may decline to register transfers of Ordinary Shares in certain circumstances.

 

Our board of directors may, in its sole discretion, decline to register any transfer of any Ordinary Share which is not fully paid up or on which we have a lien. Our directors may also decline to register any transfer of any share unless (i) the instrument of transfer is lodged with us, accompanied by the certificate for the shares to which it relates and such other evidence as our board of directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer; (ii) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of shares; (iii) the instrument of transfer is properly stamped, if required; (iv) in the case of a transfer to joint holders, the number of joint holders to whom the share is to be transferred does not exceed four; (v) the shares transferred are free of any lien in favor of us; or (vi) a fee of such maximum sum as the Nasdaq Capital Market may determine to be payable, or such lesser sum as our board of directors may from time to time require, is paid to us in respect thereof.

 

If our directors refuse to register a transfer they shall, within three months after the date on which the instrument of transfer was lodged, send to each of the transferor and the transferee notice of such refusal. The registration of transfers may, on 14 days’ notice being given by advertisement in such one or more newspapers or by electronic means, be suspended and the register closed at such times and for such periods as our board of directors may from time to time determine, provided, however, that the registration of transfers shall not be suspended nor the register closed for more than 30 days in any year.

 

This, however, is unlikely to affect market transactions of the Class A Ordinary Shares purchased by investors in the public offering. Once the Class A Ordinary Shares have been listed, the legal title to such Class A Ordinary Shares and the registration details of those Class A Ordinary Shares in the Company’s register of members will remain with DTC/Cede & Co. All market transactions with respect to those Class A Ordinary Shares will then be carried out without the need for any kind of registration by the directors, as the market transactions will all be conducted through the DTC systems.

 

Because we are an “emerging growth company,” we may not be subject to requirements that other public companies are subject to, which could affect investor confidence in us and our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

For as long as we remain an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act, we will elect to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies”, including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. Because of these lessened regulatory requirements, our shareholders would be left without information or rights available to shareholders of more mature companies. If some investors find our Class A Ordinary Shares less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our Class A Ordinary Shares and our share price may be more volatile. See “Implications of Our Being an ‘Emerging Growth Company.’”

 

The laws of the Cayman Islands may not provide our shareholders with benefits comparable to those provided to shareholders of corporations incorporated in the United States.

 

We are an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands with limited liability. Our corporate affairs are governed by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, by the Companies Act (2021 Revision) of the Cayman Islands and by the common law of the Cayman Islands. The rights of shareholders to take action against our directors, actions by minority shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors to us under Cayman Islands law are to a large extent governed by the common law of the Cayman Islands. The common law in the Cayman Islands is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial precedent in the Cayman Islands and from English common law. Decisions of the Privy Council (which is the final Court of Appeal for British overseas territories such as the Cayman Islands) are binding on a court in the Cayman Islands. Decisions of the English courts, and particularly the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal are generally of persuasive authority but are not binding in the courts of the Cayman Islands. Decisions of courts in other Commonwealth jurisdictions are similarly of persuasive but not binding authority. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors under Cayman Islands law are not as clearly established as they would be under statutes or judicial precedents in the United States. In particular, the Cayman Islands has a less developed body of securities laws relative to the United States. Therefore, our public shareholders may have more difficulty protecting their interests in the face of actions by our management, directors or controlling shareholders than would shareholders of a corporation incorporated in a jurisdiction in the United States.

 

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Shareholders of Cayman Islands exempted companies like us have no general rights under Cayman Islands law to inspect corporate records or to obtain copies of the register of members of these companies. Our directors have discretion under our articles of association to determine whether or not, and under what conditions, our corporate records may be inspected by our shareholders, but are not obliged to make them available to our shareholders. This may make it more difficult for you to obtain the information needed to establish any facts necessary for a shareholder motion or to solicit proxies from other shareholders in connection with a proxy contest.

 

As a result of all of the above, public shareholders may have more difficulty in protecting their interests in the face of actions taken by our management, members of the board of directors or controlling shareholders than they would as public shareholders of a company incorporated in the United States. For a discussion of significant differences between the provisions of the Companies Act (2021 Revision) of the Cayman Islands and the laws applicable to companies incorporated in the United States and their shareholders, see “Description of Share Capital — Differences in Corporate Law.”

 

You may be unable to present proposals before annual general meetings or extraordinary general meetings not called by shareholders.

 

Cayman Islands law provides shareholders with only limited rights to requisition a general meeting, and does not provide shareholders with any right to put any proposal before a general meeting. These rights, however, may be provided in a company’s articles of association. Our articles of association allow our shareholders holding shares representing in aggregate not less than 10% of our voting share capital in issue, to requisition a general meeting of our shareholders, in which case our directors are obliged to call such meeting. Advance notice of at least 21 clear days is required for the convening of our annual general shareholders’ meeting and at least 14 clear days’ notice any other general meeting of our shareholders. A quorum required for a meeting of shareholders consists of at least one shareholder present or by proxy, representing not less than one-third of the total issued shares carrying the right to vote at a general meeting of the Company. For these purposes, “clear days” means that period excluding (a) the day when the notice is given or deemed to be given and (b) the day for which it is given or on which it is to take effect.

 

If we are classified as a passive foreign investment company, United States taxpayers who own our Class A Ordinary Shares may have adverse United States federal income tax consequences.

 

A non-U.S. corporation such as ourselves will be classified as a passive foreign investment company, which is known as a PFIC, for any taxable year if, for such year, either:

 

  At least 75% of our gross income for the year is passive income; or
     
  The average percentage of our assets (determined at the end of each quarter) during the taxable year which produce passive income or which are held for the production of passive income is at least 50%.

 

Passive income generally includes dividends, interest, rents and royalties (other than rents or royalties derived from the active conduct of a trade or business), and gains from the disposition of passive assets.

 

If we are determined to be a PFIC for any taxable year (or portion thereof) that is included in the holding period of a U.S. taxpayer who holds our Class A Ordinary Shares, the U.S. taxpayer may be subject to increased U.S. federal income tax liability and may be subject to additional reporting requirements.

 

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Depending on the amount of cash we raise in this offering, together with any other assets held for the production of passive income, it is possible that, for our 2021 taxable year or for any subsequent year, more than 50% of our assets may be assets which produce passive income, in which case we would be deemed a PFIC, which could have adverse US federal income tax consequences for US taxpayers who are shareholders. We will make this determination following the end of any particular tax year.

 

The classification of certain of our income as active or passive, and certain of our assets as producing active or passive income, and hence whether we are or will become a PFIC, depends on the interpretation of certain United States Treasury Regulations as well as certain IRS guidance relating to the classification of assets as producing active or passive income. Such regulations and guidance are potentially subject to different interpretations. If, due to different interpretations of such regulations and guidance, the percentage of our passive income or the percentage of our assets treated as producing passive income increases, we may be a PFIC in one or more taxable years.

 

For a more detailed discussion of the application of the PFIC rules to us and the consequences to U.S. taxpayers if we were or are determined to be a PFIC, see “Material Income Tax Consideration—United States Federal Income Taxation—Passive Foreign Investment Company.

 

Our pre-IPO shareholders will be able to sell their shares upon completion of this offering subject to restrictions under Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

 

As of the date of this prospectus, 13,000,000 of our Ordinary Shares were issued and outstanding before this offering. Our pre-IPO shareholders may be able to sell their Class A Ordinary Shares under Rule 144 after the completion of this offering. See “Shares Eligible for Future Sale” below. Because these shareholders have paid a lower price per Ordinary Share than participants in this offering, when they are able to sell their pre-IPO shares under Rule 144, they may be more willing to accept a lower sales price than the IPO price. This fact could impact the trading price of the Class A Ordinary Shares following the completion of the offering, to the detriment of participants in this offering. Under Rule 144, before our pre-IPO shareholders can sell their shares, in addition to meeting other requirements, they must meet the required holding period. We do not expect any of the Class A Ordinary Shares to be sold pursuant to Rule 144 during the pendency of this offering.

 

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DISCLOSURE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements that reflect our current expectations and views of future events, all of which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. You can find many (but not all) of these statements by the use of words such as “approximates,” “assesses,” “believes,” “hopes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” “may” or other similar expressions in this prospectus. These statements are likely to address our growth strategy, financial results and product and development programs. You must carefully consider any such statements and should understand that many factors could cause actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements. These factors may include inaccurate assumptions and a broad variety of other risks and uncertainties, including some that are known and some that are not. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed and actual future results may vary materially. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

 

  assumptions about our future financial and operating results, including revenue, income, expenditures, cash balances, and other financial items;
  our ability to execute our growth, and expansion, including our ability to meet our goals;
  current and future economic and political conditions;
  our capital requirements and our ability to raise any additional financing which we may require;
  our ability to attract clients and further enhance our brand recognition;
  our ability to hire and retain qualified management personnel and key employees in order to enable us to develop our business;
  trends and competition in the education industry; 
  the impact of the coronavirus pandemic (“COVID-19”) and other pandemic or natural disaster; and
  other assumptions described in this prospectus underlying or relating to any forward-looking statements.

We describe certain material risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could affect our business, including our financial condition and results of operations, under “Risk Factors.” We base our forward-looking statements on our management’s beliefs and assumptions based on information available to our management at the time the statements are made. We caution you that actual outcomes and results may, and are likely to, differ materially from what is expressed, implied or forecast by our forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should be careful about relying on any forward-looking statements. Except as required under the federal securities laws, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements after the distribution of this prospectus, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, or otherwise.

 

Industry Data and Forecasts

 

This prospectus contains data related to the education industry in China. This industry data includes projections that are based on a number of assumptions which have been derived from industry and government sources which we believe to be reasonable. The education industry may not grow at the rate projected by industry data, or at all. The failure of the industry to grow as anticipated is likely to have a material adverse effect on our business and the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares. In addition, the rapidly changing nature of the education industry subjects any projections or estimates relating to the growth prospects or future condition of our industry to significant uncertainties. Furthermore, if any one or more of the assumptions underlying the industry data turns out to be incorrect, actual results may, and are likely to, differ from the projections based on these assumptions.

 

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ENFORCEABILITY OF CIVIL LIABILITIES

 

We are incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands as an exempted company with limited liability. We incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands because of certain benefits associated with being a Cayman Islands company, such as political and economic stability, an effective judicial system, a favorable tax system, the absence of foreign exchange control or currency restrictions and the availability of professional and support services. The Cayman Islands, however, has a less developed body of securities laws as compared to the United States and provides significantly less protection for investors than the United States. Additionally, Cayman Islands companies may not have standing to sue in the Federal courts of the United States.

 

Substantially all of our assets are located in the PRC. In addition, a majority of our directors and officers are nationals or residents of the PRC and all or a substantial portion of their assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to effect service of process within the United States upon us or these persons, or to enforce against us or them judgments obtained in United States courts, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States.

 

We have appointed Cogency Global Inc. as our agent to receive service of process with respect to any action brought against us in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York under the federal securities laws of the United States or of any state in the United States or any action brought against us in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the County of New York under the securities laws of the State of New York.

 

Ogier, our counsel with respect to the laws of the Cayman Islands, and Pacgate Law Firm, our counsel with respect to PRC law, have advised us that there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of the Cayman Islands or the PRC would (i) recognize or enforce judgments of United States courts obtained against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States or (ii) entertain original actions brought in the Cayman Islands or the PRC against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States.

 

Ogier has further advised us that there is currently no statutory enforcement or treaty between the United States and the Cayman Islands providing for enforcement of judgments. A judgment obtained in the United States, however, may be recognized and enforced in the courts of the Cayman Islands at common law, without any re-examination on the merits of the underlying dispute, by an action commenced on the foreign judgment debt in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, provided such judgment: (i) is given by a foreign court of competent jurisdiction; (ii) is final; (iii) is not in respect of taxes, a fine or a penalty; and (iv) was not obtained in a manner and is not of a kind the enforcement of which is contrary to natural justice or public policy of the Cayman Islands. Furthermore, it is uncertain that Cayman Islands courts would enforce: (1) judgments of U.S. courts obtained in actions against us or other persons that are predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the U.S. federal securities laws; or (2) original actions brought against us or other persons predicated upon the Securities Act. Ogier has informed us that there is uncertainty with regard to Cayman Islands law relating to whether a judgment obtained from the U.S. courts under civil liability provisions of the securities laws will be determined by the courts of the Cayman Islands as penal or punitive in nature.

 

Pacgate Law Firm has further advised us that the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments are provided for under the PRC Civil Procedure Law. PRC courts may recognize and enforce foreign judgments in accordance with the requirements of the PRC Civil Procedure Law based either on treaties between China and the country where the judgment is made or on reciprocity between jurisdictions. There are no treaties or other forms of reciprocity between China and the United States for the mutual recognition and enforcement of court judgments. Pacgate Law Firm has further advised us that under PRC law, PRC courts will not enforce a foreign judgment against us or our officers and directors if the court decides that such judgment violates the basic principles of PRC law or national sovereignty, security or public interest, thus making the recognition and enforcement of a U.S. court judgment in China difficult.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

 

Based upon an assumed initial public offering price of $4.5 per Class A Ordinary Share, which is the midpoint of the estimated initial public offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, we estimate that we will receive net proceeds from this offering, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and the estimated offering expenses payable by us, of approximately $17.6 million if the Underwriter does not exercise its over-allotment option, and $20.3 million if the Underwriter exercises its over-allotment option in full.

 

We plan to use the net proceeds we receive from this offering for the following purposes:

 

  approximately 25% for acquisitions of tutorial centers for non-English foreign language for Gaokao, as well as overseas schools and tutorial centers;
     
  Approximately 15% for research and development of the courses related to non-English foreign language for Gaokao, and the expansion of the operating center for non-English foreign language for Gaokao;
     
  approximately 40% for acquisitions of tutorial centers for language training;
     
  approximately 10% for the recruitment and retention of teachers and management personnel; and
     
  approximately 10% to fund working capital and for other general corporate purposes.

 

The foregoing represents our current intentions based upon our present plans and business conditions to use and allocate the net proceeds of this offering. Our management, however, will have significant flexibility and discretion to apply the net proceeds of this offering. If an unforeseen event occurs or business conditions change, we may use the proceeds of this offering differently than as described in this prospectus. To the extent that the net proceeds we receive from this offering are not immediately used for the above purposes, we intend to invest our net proceeds in short-term, interest-bearing bank deposits or debt instruments.

 

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DIVIDEND POLICY

 

We intend to keep any future earnings to finance the expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate that any cash dividends will be paid in the foreseeable future.

 

Under the Cayman Islands law, a Cayman Islands company may pay a dividend on its shares out of either profit or share premium amount, provided that in no circumstances may a dividend be paid if this would result in the company being unable to pay its debts due in the ordinary course of business.

 

If we determine to pay dividends on any of our Class A Ordinary Shares in the future, as a holding company, we will be dependent on receipt of funds from our direct subsidiaries, Golden Sun Shanghai and Golden Sun Hong Kong.

 

Current PRC regulations permit our PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to Golden Sun Hong Kong only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with Chinese accounting standards and regulations. In addition, each of our Affiliated Entities in China is required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund a statutory reserve until such reserve reaches 50% of its registered capital. Each of such entity in China is also required to further set aside a portion of its after-tax profits to fund the employee welfare fund, although the amount to be set aside, if any, is determined at the discretion of its board of directors. Although the statutory reserves can be used, among other ways, to increase the registered capital and eliminate future losses in excess of retained earnings of the respective companies, the reserve funds are not distributable as cash dividends except in the event of liquidation.

 

The PRC government also imposes controls on the conversion of RMB into foreign currencies and the remittance of currencies out of the PRC. Therefore, we may experience difficulties in complying with the administrative requirements necessary to obtain and remit foreign currency for the payment of dividends from our profits, if any. Furthermore, if our Affiliated Entities in the PRC incur debt on their own in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict their ability to pay dividends or make other payments. If we or our PRC subsidiaries are unable to receive all of the revenue from our operations, we may be unable to pay dividends on our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Cash dividends, if any, on our Class A Ordinary Shares will be paid in U.S. dollars. Golden Sun Hong Kong may be considered a non-resident enterprise for tax purposes, so that any dividends Golden Sun Wenzhou pays to Golden Sun Hong Kong may be regarded as China-sourced income and as a result may be subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of up to 10%. See “Material Income Tax Consideration—People’s Republic of China Enterprise Taxation.”

 

In order for us to pay dividends to our shareholders, we will rely on payments made from subsidiaries of Golden Sun Wenzhou to Golden Sun Wenzhou, and the distribution of such payments to Golden Sun Hong Kong and Golden Sun Cayman as dividends from our subsidiaries. If Golden Sun Wenzhou incurs debt on its own behalves in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict its ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to us.

 

Pursuant to the Arrangement between Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and Tax Evasion on Income, or the Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement, the 10% withholding tax rate may be lowered to 5% if a Hong Kong resident enterprise owns no less than 25% of a PRC project. The 5% withholding tax rate, however, does not automatically apply and certain requirements must be satisfied, including without limitation that (a) the Hong Kong project must be the beneficial owner of the relevant dividends; and (b) the Hong Kong project must directly hold no less than 25% share ownership in the PRC project during the 12 consecutive months preceding its receipt of the dividends. In current practice, a Hong Kong project must obtain a tax resident certificate from the Hong Kong tax authority to apply for the 5% lower PRC withholding tax rate. As the Hong Kong tax authority will issue such a tax resident certificate on a case-by-case basis, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority and enjoy the preferential withholding tax rate of 5% under the Double Taxation Arrangement with respect to any dividends paid by Golden Sun Wenzhou to its immediate holding company, Golden Sun Hong Kong. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not applied for the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority. Golden Sun Hong Kong intends to apply for the tax resident certificate if and when Golden Sun Wenzhou plans to declare and pay dividends to Golden Sun Hong Kong. See “Risk Factors—Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC—There are significant uncertainties under the EIT Law relating to the withholding tax liabilities of Golden Sun Wenzhou, and dividends payable by Golden Sun Wenzhou to our offshore subsidiaries may not qualify to enjoy certain treaty benefits.”

 

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CAPITALIZATION

 

The following table sets forth our capitalization as of September 30, 2021:

 

  on an actual basis; and
     
  on an as adjusted basis to reflect the issuance and sale of the Class A Ordinary Shares by us in this offering at the assumed initial public offering price of $4.5 per Class A Ordinary Share, which is the midpoint of the estimated initial public offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts, and the estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

You should read this capitalization table in conjunction with “Use of Proceeds,” “Selected Consolidated Financial and Operating Data,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the consolidated financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.

  

   September 30, 2021 
   Actual   As
adjusted (Over-allotment  option not exercised)(1)
   As
adjusted  (Over-allotment option exercised  in full)(1)
 
   $    $       $ 
Cash  $1,192,780   $18,864,553   $21,582,103 
Long-term bank loans   1,028,182    1,028,182    1,028,182 
Due to related party- long term   672,560    672,560    672,560 
Shareholders’ Equity:               
Ordinary Shares, $0.0005 par value, 100,000,000 Ordinary Shares authorized, 13,000,000 Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding, including 8,970,000 Class A Ordinary Shares and 4,030,000 Class B Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding, as adjusted               
Class A Ordinary Shares  $4,485   $6,685   $7,015 
Class B Ordinary Shares  $2,015   $2,015   $2,015 
Additional paid-in capital  $19,145   $17,141,699   $19,858,919 
Statuary reserves  $857,370   $857,370   $857,370 
Accumulated deficit  $(6,760,297)  $(6,760,297)  $(6,760,297)
Accumulated other comprehensive loss  $(1,676,651)  $(1,676,651)  $(1,676,651)
Total Shareholders’ Equity  $(7,553,933)  $9,570,821   $12,288,371 
Total Capitalization  $(5,853,191)  $11,271,563   $13,989,113 

 

(1)Reflects the sale of Class A Ordinary Shares in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $4.5 per share, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts, and estimated offering expenses payable by us. The pro forma as adjusted information is illustrative only, and we will adjust this information based on the actual initial public offering price and other terms of this offering determined at pricing. Additional paid-in capital reflects the net proceeds we expect to receive, after deducting the underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We estimate that such net proceeds will be approximately $17.6 million.

 

A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $4.5 per Class A Ordinary Share would increase (decrease) each of additional paid-in capital, total shareholders’ equity and total capitalization by $4.0 million, assuming the number of Class A Ordinary Shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts, and estimated expenses payable by us.

 

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DILUTION

 

If you invest in our Class A Ordinary Shares, your interest will be diluted for each Class A Ordinary Share you purchase to the extent of the difference between the initial public offering price per Class A Ordinary Share and our net tangible book value per Class A Ordinary Share after this offering. Dilution results from the fact that the initial public offering price per Class A Ordinary Share is substantially in excess of the net tangible book value per Class A Ordinary Share attributable to the existing shareholders for our presently outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Our net tangible book value as of September 30, 2021, was deficit of $8.1 million, or $(0.62) per Ordinary Share. Net tangible book value represents the amount of our total consolidated tangible assets, less the amount of our total consolidated liabilities, non-controlling interest and deferred IPO cost. Dilution is determined by subtracting the net tangible book value per Class A Ordinary Share (as adjusted for the offering) from the initial public offering price per Class A Ordinary Share and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts, and the estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

After giving effect to our sale of 4,400,000 Class A Ordinary Shares offered in this offering based on the initial public offering price of $4.5 per Class A Ordinary Share after deduction of the estimated underwriting discounts, and the estimated offering expenses payable by us, our as adjusted net tangible book value as of September 30, 2021, would have been $9.6 million, or $0.55 per outstanding Ordinary Share. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $1.17 per Ordinary Share to the existing shareholders, and an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $3.95 per Ordinary Share to investors purchasing Class A Ordinary Shares in this offering. The as adjusted information discussed above is illustrative only.

 

The following table illustrates such dilution:

 

   No
Exercise of
Over-Allotment Option
   Full
Exercise of
Over-Allotment Option
 
Assumed Initial public offering price per Class A Ordinary Share  $      4.50   $      4.50 
Net tangible book value per Class A Ordinary Share as of September 30, 2021  $(0.62)  $(0.62)
As adjusted net tangible book value per Class A Ordinary Share attributable to payments by new investors  $1.17   $1.30 
Pro forma net tangible book value per Class A Ordinary Share immediately after this offering  $0.55   $0.68 
Amount of dilution in net tangible book value per Class A Ordinary Share to new investors in the offering  $3.95   $3.82 

 

The following tables summarize, on a pro forma as adjusted basis as of September 30, 2021, the differences between existing shareholders and the new investors with respect to the number of Class A Ordinary Shares purchased from us, the total consideration paid and the average price per Class A Ordinary Share before deducting the estimated underwriting discounts, and the estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

    Ordinary Shares
purchased
    Total consideration     Average
price per
Ordinary
 
Over-allotment option not exercised   Number     Percent     Amount     Percent     Share  
Existing shareholders     13,000,000       74.7 %   $ 25,645       0.15 %   $ 0.00  
New investors     4,400,000       25.3 %   $ 17,124,754       99.85 %   $ 3.89  
Total     17,400,000       100 %   $ 17,150,399       100 %   $ 0.99  

 

    Ordinary Shares
purchased
    Total consideration     Average
price per
Ordinary
 
Over-allotment option exercised in full   Number     Percent     Amount     Percent     Share  
Existing shareholders     13,000,000       72.0 %   $ 25,645       0.13 %   $ 0.00  
New investors     5,060,000       28.0 %   $ 19,842,304       99.87 %   $ 3.92  
Total     18,060,000       100 %   $ 19,867,949       100 %   $ 1.10  

 

The pro forma as adjusted information as discussed above is illustrative only. Our net tangible book value following the completion of this offering is subject to adjustment based on the actual initial public offering price of our Class A Ordinary Shares and other terms of this offering determined at the pricing.

 

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CORPORATE HISTORY AND STRUCTURE

 

Our Corporate History

 

Golden Sun Education Group Limited, or Golden Sun Cayman, was incorporated in the Cayman Islands on September 20, 2018.

 

Our principal executive office is located at Profit Huiyin Square North Building, Huashan 2018, Unit 1001, Xuhui District, Shanghai, PRC. Our telephone at this address is +86-0577-56765303. Our registered office in the Cayman Islands is located at the offices of Vistra (Cayman) Limited, P.O. Box 31119 Grand Pavilion, Hibiscus Way, 802 West Bay Road, Grand Cayman, KY1 – 1205 Cayman Islands, and the phone number of our registered office is +1-345-769 9372. We maintain a corporate website at http://www.jtyjyjt.com. The information contained in, or accessible from, our website or any other website does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

 

The SEC maintains a website at www.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC using its EDGAR system.

 

Our Corporate Structure

 

The following diagram illustrates our corporate structure upon completion of this offering based on a proposed number of 4,400,000 Class A Ordinary Shares being offered, assuming no exercise of the over-allotment, and 13,000,000 Ordinary Shares, including 8,970,000 Class A Ordinary Shares and 4,030,000 Class B Ordinary Shares, outstanding as of the date of this prospectus.

 

 

For details of each shareholder’s ownership, please refer to the beneficial ownership table in the section captioned “Principal Shareholders.”

 

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The VIE Agreements

 

Prior to our Reorganization (see “Prospectus Summary - Recent Development - The Reorganization”), which was completed in September 2021, we operated Ouhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School through VIE structures. Neither we nor our subsidiaries owned any shares in Ouhai Art School or Chongwen Middle School. Instead, we controlled and received the economic benefits of the business operations of Ouhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School through the VIE Agreements. As a result of our indirect ownership of Golden Sun Wenzhou and Golden Sun Shanghai, as well as the VIE Agreements which were designed so that the operations of the VIEs were solely for the benefit of the Company, the Company was deemed to have a controlling financial interest in, and be the primary beneficiary of, the VIEs, for accounting purposes under U.S. GAAP. Accordingly, we had consolidated the financial results of the VIEs in our consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2020 and 2010.  As a result of the Reorganization, we no longer operates any VIEs.

 

Ouhai Art School

 

On March 1, 2019, Golden Sun Wenzhou, Ouhai Art School, and Xiulan Ye and Xueyuan Weng, the shareholders of Ouhai (“Ouhai Shareholders”) entered into contractual arrangements (the “Ouhai Agreements”) for a term of 10 years with preferred renewal rights. The Ouhai Agreements were designed to provide Golden Sun Wenzhou with the power, rights, and obligations equivalent in all material respects to those it would possess as the person with exclusive rights to control the operations of Ouhai Art School, including the power to control Ouhai Art School and the rights to the assets, property, and revenue of Ouhai Art School. In September 2021, the Quhai Agreement were terminated as a result of the Reorganization and the Company no longer operates Quhai Art School vie the VIE structure.

 

Chongwen Middle School

 

On August 19, 2015, the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Golden Sun Shanghai, entered into an entrustment agreement (“Entrustment Agreement”) with Chongwen Middle School and Xueyuan Weng for the period from September 1, 2015 to August 31, 2023, and was renewable for an additional seven years if elected. The Entrustment Agreement was subsequently amended on March 1, 2021, and, pursuant to the Entrustment Agreement, as amended, Golden Sun Shanghai had the exclusive right to control the operations of Chongwen Middle School, including making operational and financial decisions. In return, the Company was entitled to receive the residual return from Chongwen Middle School’s operation and at the same time to bear the risk of loss from the operation.

 

As part of the Reorganization, the Company sold all of its shares of Golden Sun Shanghai for a consideration of Hong Kong Dollar 100,000 (approximately $12,845) and no longer operates Chongwen Middle School via the VIE structure.

 

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with the section headed “Selected Consolidated Financial and Operating Data” and our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results and the timing of selected events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those set forth under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

Overview

 

We are a leading provider of Spanish tutorial services in China in 2019, according to the Industry Report. Established in 1997 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, we have over twenty years of experience providing educational services that focus on the development of each of our student’s strengths and potential, and the promotion of life-long skills and interests in learning. Prior to the Reorganization, we operated one premium primary private school and one premium secondary private school through two VIEs, in addition to our current operations that include tutorial centers for children and adults, one educational company that partners with high schools to offer language classes to their students, and one logistics company that provides logistic and consulting services. Since the Reorganization, we no longer operate primary or secondary private schools and no longer use a VIE structure. 

 

On September 1, 2021, the revised Implementing Regulation became effective. The revised Implementing Regulation prohibits private schools that provide compulsory education to be controlled by means of agreements or to enter into any transactions with any related parties. Until September 2021, the Company had controlled and received economic benefits from the VIEs, Ouhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School, two private schools that provide compulsory education, through a series of contractual arrangements (the “VIE Agreements”) to provide contractual exposure to foreign investment in Chinese-based companies, where Chinese law prohibits direct foreign investment in the Chinese operating companies. In order to become compliant with the revised Implementing Regulation, in September 2021, the Company completed a reorganization to divest its operations of Ouhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School. Through the Reorganization, (1) the Company sold all of its shares in Golden Sun Shanghai (the entity that controls Chongwen Middle School through contractual arrangements) to CEO and his wife; and (2) Golden Sun Wenzhou, one of the Company’s subsidiaries, terminated its VIE Agreements with Ouhai Art School. As a result of the foregoing, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries controls or receives economic benefits from any private schools that provide compulsory education, and, as of the date of this prospectus, we believe the Company and its subsidiaries are compliant with the revised Implementing Regulation. The assets and liabilities related to the discontinued VIE operations were retroactively classified as assets/liabilities held for sale as of September 30, 2020, while results of operations related to the discontinued operations for the years ended September 30, 2020, were retroactively reported as income (loss) from discontinued operations.

 

During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2021 (“fiscal year 2021”), our revenue from continuing operations increased by approximately 94%, to approximately $15.0 million from $7.7 million for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020 (“fiscal year 2020”). In fiscal year 2021, our net income from continuing operations amounted to approximately $1.3 million, compared to a net loss from continuing operation of approximately $146,000 in fiscal year 2020. In fiscal year 2021, our total net income was approximately $2.2 million as compared with approximately $55,000 for fiscal year 2020. The increase in revenue primarily attributable to the increase of our tutorial service revenue. The number of partner-schools, to which we provide non-English foreign languages tutorial service increased from 28 in fiscal year 2020 to 64 in fiscal year 2021; the number of students enrolled in our non-English foreign languages tutorial programs nearly tripled in fiscal year 2021, as a result, the revenue from our tutorial services increased significantly. The increase in net income was in line with the increase in revenue.

 

Factors Affecting Our Results of Operations

 

We believe the most significant factors that affect our business and results of operations include the following:

 

  The Chinese education sector is going through a series of reforms and new laws and guidelines have been recently promulgated and released to regulate our industry. We are subject to legal and operational risks associated with being based in and having the majority of the company’s operations in China. On September 1, 2021, the revised Implementing Regulation became effective. The revised Implementing Regulation prohibits private schools that provide compulsory education to be controlled by means of agreements or to enter into any transactions with any related parties. The new regulation has a material change in our operations.

 

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  The number of students enrolled is largely driven by the demand for the tutorial programs we offer, our reputation and brand recognition and our ability to improve the variety and quality of the programs we offer.

 

  Pricing of our tuition fees are affected by the tuition policy set by governments. Article 38 of the Law for Promoting Private Education stipulates that the items and rates of fees to be charged by private schools shall be determined according to the cost of running a school, market demands and other relevant factors, and made available to the public. Tuition and fee rates for private schools are subject to the supervision by the relevant authority. Provincial governments, autonomous regions governments and centrally-administered municipalities set the guidelines on fees for not-for-profit schools; while the tuition criteria of for-profit private schools are subject to market conditions and shall be determined by the schools themselves. Currently, fees for our not-for-profit schools are determined by the school and filed with the relevant authorities for its supervision, while fees for our for-profit schools are primarily based on demand for our courses, the targeted market for our courses and fees charged by our competitors for the same or similar courses.

  

  Our ability to manage our cost of revenues directly affects our profitability. Our cost of revenues mainly consists of labor costs, which are compensation for our teachers and educational staff, student-related costs, depreciation expenses and lease payment for our schools and tutorial centers. We expect our cost of revenues to increase in absolute amounts as we continue to grow our business.

 

Results of Continuing Operations

 

For the years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020

 

Impact of COVID-19

 

Beginning in late 2019, an outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) first emerged in China and spread globally. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) declared the COVID-19 as a pandemic. Governments in affected countries imposed travel bans, quarantines and other emergency public health measures, which have caused material disruption to businesses globally resulting in an economic slowdown. These measures, though intended to be temporary in nature, may continue and increase depending on developments in the COVID-19 outbreak.

  

Yangtze River Delta, where we conduct a substantial part of our business, was heavily impacted by COVID-19 in the beginning of 2020. We followed the recommendations of local health authorities to minimize exposure risk for our schools and tutorial centers, including the postponement of commencement of new semester, temporary closure of our tutorial centers and suspension of other office activities, and remote teaching. Our in-person classes have resumed gradually since April 2020.

 

The COVID-19 outbreak had a significant negative impact on our tutorial services in fiscal year 2020. In fiscal 2021, COVID-19 impact on our operation was relatively limited. Our tutorial services revenue increased by approximately $6.7 million, or 98%, to approximately $13.5 million in fiscal year 2021, from approximately $6.8 million in fiscal year 2020.

 

The extent of the impact on the Company’s future financial results will be dependent on future developments such as the length and severity of the crisis, the potential resurgence of the crisis, the virus variation, future government actions in response to the crisis and the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy and capital markets, among many other factors, all of which remain highly uncertain and unpredictable. Given this uncertainty, the Company is currently unable to quantify the expected impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its future operations, financial condition, liquidity and results of operations if the current situation continues.

 

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Revenue

 

We, through our China based subsidiaries, generate revenues from our continuing operations through the following main sources: (i) tutorial services and (ii) logistic and consulting services. The following table sets forth the breakdown of our revenue for the periods presented:

 

   For the years ended September 30,         
   2021   2020   Amount   % 
Revenue by type  Amount   % of
total revenue
   Amount   % of
total revenue
   Increase
(Decrease)
   Increase
(Decrease)
 
Tutorial services provided by our PRC subsidiaries   13,518,061    90%   6,827,677    88%   6,690,384    98%
Logistic and consulting services   1,508,930    10%   907,508    12%   601,422    66%
Total revenue  $15,026,991    100%  $7,735,185    100%  $7,291,806    94%

 

Revenue from our continuing operations increased approximately $7.3 million, or 94%, to approximately $15.0 million in fiscal year 2021 from approximately $7.7 million in fiscal year 2020. The increase in revenue was mainly due to an increase of approximately $6.7 million in tutorial service revenue in fiscal year 2021.

 

Tutorial services

 

Our tutorial services revenue increased by approximately $6.7 million, or 98%, to approximately $13.5 million in fiscal year 2021, from approximately $6.8 million in fiscal year 2020. Due to the effective control of the COVID -19 pandemic in China, we resumed in-person tutorial class sessions and increased our average tuition fees to pre-pandemic levels, consequently achieving revenue rebound in tutorial services for fiscal year 2021. The total number of student enrollment in our tutorial programs increased by 162 from an aggregate of 9,557 students in fiscal year 2020 to an aggregate of 9,719 students in fiscal year 2021, our average revenue recognized per student increased by $677 from $714 per student in fiscal year 2020 to $1,391 per student in fiscal year 2021. Qinshang Education, a subsidiary of the Company established in December 2019, started generating revenue by partnering with high schools to provide non-English foreign languages tutoring services in fiscal year 2020. The number of our partner-schools increased from 28 in fiscal year 2020 to 64 in fiscal year 2021; the number of students enrolled in Qingshang’s non-English foreign languages tutorial programs increased from 786 in fiscal year 2020 to 2,682 in fiscal year 2021, as a result, the revenue increased significantly in the fiscal year 2021.

 

Logistic and consulting services

 

Logistic and consulting services revenue increased by approximately $0.6 million, or 66%, to approximately $1.5 million in fiscal year 2021 from approximately $0.9 million in fiscal year 2020. The increase was mainly due to increase in our catering services offered to our affiliated schools. 

 

Cost of Revenues

 

Cost of revenues from our continuing operations increased by approximately $2.1 million, or 52%, to approximately $6.2 million in fiscal year 2021, from approximately $4.1 million in fiscal year 2020. The higher cost of revenue in fiscal year 2021 was in line with the increase in revenues, largely as a result of the additional costs incurred for teachers compensations and management fees for our non-English foreign languages tutorial program. Catering cost also contributed to the increase in fiscal 2021 as schools catering service were closed for some part of fiscal year 2020 during the period of January to April 2020 due to the impact of COVID-19.

 

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Gross profit

 

Gross profit from our continuing operations increased by approximately $5.2 million, or 141%, to approximately $8.8 million in fiscal year 2021, from approximately $3.7 million in fiscal year 2020. Overall gross profit margin was approximately 59% in fiscal year 2021, as compared to approximately 47% in fiscal year 2020. The increases in gross profit and gross margin in fiscal year 2021 were primarily due to the increase in tutorial service revenue that outweighed the increase in costs in tutorial service. In fiscal year 2020, there was no significant tutorial service revenue from Qinshang Education, while we incurred certain start-up costs, such as course development, teacher recruiting and training cost etc., which resulted in a lower gross margin for tutorial service from Qingshang Education. As Qingshang Education’s revenue increased significantly in fiscal 2021, it achieved a 64% gross profit margin. In addition, we improved our operational efficiency and achieved a higher gross margin with respect to our three tutorial centers. The above contributed to overall improvement of our gross profit margin.

 

Operating Expenses

 

   For the years ended September 30,         
   2021   2020         
   Amount   %
of revenue
   Amount   %
of revenue
   Amount Increase   %
Increase
 
Selling expenses  $2,208,296    15%  $797,209    11%  $1,411,087    177%
General and administrative expenses   4,656,256    31%   2,806,933    36%   1,849,323    66%
Total  $6,864,552    46%  $3,604,142    47%  $3,260,410    90%

 

Operating expenses from our continuing operations increased by approximately $3.3 million, or 90%, from approximately $3.6 million in fiscal year 2020, to approximately $6.9 million in fiscal year 2021. The increase in operating expenses was mainly due to approximately $1.8 million increased in general and administrative expenses and approximately $1.4 million in selling expenses in fiscal year 2021.

 

Selling expenses

 

Selling expenses from our continuing operations increased by approximately $1.4 million to approximately $2.2 million in fiscal year 2021 as compared to approximately $0.8 million in fiscal year 2020. The increase in selling expenses was mainly due to (i) approximately $1.0 million increase in amortization of contract acquisition cost related to the upfront fees paid to tutorial service agents to facilitate the related contracts with students for the tutorial service, and (ii) more marketing and promotional activities in fiscal 2021, as compared to fiscal 2020.

 

General and administrative expenses

 

General and administrative expenses of our continuing operations increased by approximately $1.8 million, or 66%, to approximately $4.7 million in fiscal year 2021, from approximately $2.8 million in fiscal year 2020. As a percentage of revenues, general and administrative expenses represented approximately 31% and 36% of our total revenues in fiscal year 2021 and 2020, respectively. The increase of general and administrative expenses was primarily attributable to (i) $1.2 million increase in salary expenses which largely attributed to increased teachers for our non-English foreign languages tutorial programs; and (ii) $0.2 million increase in consulting and professional fees related to our proposed initial public offering.

 

Interest expense

 

Our net interest expense from our continuing operations was approximately $0.2 million and $0.1 million in fiscal years 2021 and 2020. As of September 30, 2021 and 2020, we had an aggregate of approximately $2.1 million and $1.6 million bank loan balances outstanding, respectively. The average interest rate was approximately 6.9% and 8.2% in fiscal year 2021 and 2020 for the bank loans, respectively.  

 

Income before income taxes

 

Income from our continuing operations before income tax was approximately $2.0 million and $38,000 in fiscal year 2021 and 2020, respectively. The increase of approximately $1.9 million was primarily attributable to higher gross profit in fiscal year 2021 as stated above.

 

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Provision for income taxes

 

Income tax provision from our continuing operations was $0.7 million and $0.2 million in fiscal year 2021 and 2020, respectively. The increase in income tax provision was in line with the increase in taxable income in fiscal 2021.

 

Under the Enterprise Income Tax (“EIT”) Law of PRC, domestic enterprises and Foreign Investment Enterprises (the “FIE”) are usually subject to a unified 25% enterprise income tax rate while preferential tax rates, tax holidays and even tax exemption may be granted on a case-by-case basis. According to the Law on the Promotion of Private Education (“2016 Private Education Law”) effective as of September 1, 2017, private schools may enjoy preferential tax treatment, and will be entitled to similar tax benefits as public schools. Our subsidiaries are subject to statutory 25% income tax rate. Yangfushan Tutorial, qualified as a “small-scaled minimal profit enterprise”, is entitled to a preferential rate of 10% for the year ended September 30, 2020. It was not qualified as a “small-scaled minimal profit enterprise” for the year ended September 30, 2021, thus was subject to statutory 25% income tax rate for the same period. The Company’s other subsidiaries are subject to statutory 25% income tax rate. 

 

Net income

 

Our net income from continuing operations was approximately $1.3 million in fiscal year 2021, compared to a net loss of approximately $146,000 million in fiscal year 2020. The increase was primarily due to the higher gross profit in fiscal year 2021.

 

Our net income from discontinued operations increased by approximately 326% to approximately $855,040 in fiscal year 2021 from approximately $200,000 net income from discontinued operations in fiscal year 2020.

 

Our total net income was approximately $2.2 million in fiscal year 2021 as compared with approximately $55,000 net income in fiscal year 2020.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

In assessing its liquidity, management monitors and analyzes the Company’s cash on-hand, its ability to generate sufficient revenue sources in the future, and its operating and capital expenditure commitments. For the years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded net income (loss) from continuing operation of approximately $1.3 million and ($0.1) million, respectively. While the Company had a negative working capital of approximately $7.0 million as of September 30, 2021, which was largely attributed to unearned tuition advances of approximately $6.3 million. These deferred tuition payments will be recognized as revenue in the next fiscal year when the services are provided. The Company has historically funded its working capital needs primarily from operations, bank loans, and advances from shareholders and intends to continue doing so in the near future. 

 

The Company currently plans to fund its operations mainly through cash flow from its operations, renewal of bank borrowings, supports from controlling shareholders if necessary, to ensure sufficient working capital. As of September 30, 2021, the Company had cash on hand of approximately $1.2 million and outstanding bank loans of approximately $2.1 million. Management expects that it would be able to renew all of its existing bank loans upon their maturity based on past experience and the Company’s good credit history. The Company believes that its cash on hand and internally generated cash flows will be sufficient to fund its operations over at least the next 12 months from the date of this report. However, the Company may need additional cash resources in the future if the Company experiences changed business conditions or other developments, and may also need additional cash resources in the future if the Company wishes to pursue opportunities for investment, acquisition, strategic cooperation or other similar actions. If it is determined that the cash requirements exceed the Company’s amounts of cash on hand, the Company may seek to issue additional debt or obtain financial support from shareholders. The principal shareholder of the Company has made pledges to provide financial support to the Company whenever necessary.

 

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Cash flows

 

For the years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020

 

The following table sets forth a summary of our cash flows for the periods indicated:

 

   For the years ended 
   September 30,
2021
   September 30,
2020
 
Net cash (used in) provided by continuing operations  $(801,054)  $484,075 
Net cash provided by discontinued operations   832,947    1,024,501 
Net cash provided by operating activities   31,893    1,508,576 
Net cash used in continuing investing activities   (91,145)   (320,810)
Net cash used in discontinued investing activities   (121,471)   (1,259,430)
Net cash used in investing activities   (212,616)   (1,580,240)
Net cash provided by (used in) continuing financing activities   5,682,665    (194,795)
Net cash (used in) provided by discontinued financing activities   (7,686,234)   215,442 
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities   (2,003,569)   20,647 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalent   167,061    151,377 
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalent  $(2,017,231)  $100,360 

 

Operating Activities

 

Net cash provided by operating activities was approximately $32,000 in fiscal year 2021, compared to net cash provided by operating activities of approximately $1.5 million in fiscal year 2020. Net cash provided by operating activities in fiscal year 2021 mainly consisted of a net income $1.3 million from continuing operations, adjustments of $0.3 million non-cash items, an increase of approximately $0.9 million in tax payables, operating cash flows of $0.8 million from discontinued operation, offset by an increase of approximately $2.2 million in prepayments and other assets, an decrease of approximately $1.1 million in deferred revenue and an increase of approximately $0.5 million in contract assets. 

 

Net cash provided by operating activities was approximately $1.5 million in fiscal year 2020, compared to net cash provided by operating activities of approximately $6.8 million in fiscal year 2019. Net cash provided by operating activities in fiscal year 2020 mainly consisted of operating cash flows of $1.0 million from discontinued operation, adjustments of $0.1 million non-cash items, an increase of approximately $1.2 million in deferred revenue, an increase of $0.3 million in tax payables, offset by a net loss from continuing operation of approximately $0.1 million, an increase of approximately $0.8 million in prepayments.

 

Investing Activities

 

Net cash used in investing activities was approximately $212,000 in fiscal year 2021, mainly consisted of approximately 91,000 to purchase of property and equipment used in school operation and approximately $0.1 million used in discontinued operation. 

 

Net cash used in investing activities was approximately $1.6 million in fiscal year 2020, mainly consisted of approximately $0.3 million to purchase of property and equipment used in school operation and approximately $1.3 million used in discontinued operation.

 

Financing Activities

 

Net cash used in financing activities was approximately $2.0 in fiscal year 2021, including net proceeds from related parties of approximately $5.2 million, net proceeds from bank loans of approximately $0.4 million, and net proceeds from third parties loans of approximately $0.3 million, offset by approximately $7.7 million used in discontinued operation.

 

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Net cash provided by financing activities was approximately $21,000 in fiscal year 2020, including net proceeds from bank loans of approximately $86,000, payment of approximately $0.3 million of issuance cost and approximately $0.2 million provided by discontinued operation.

 

Capital Expenditures

 

Our capital expenditures attributable to our continuing operations consist primarily of additions to fixed assets as a result of our business growth. Our capital expenditures amounted to approximately $91,000 and $321,000 in fiscal year 2021 and 2020, respectively.

 

Contractual Obligations 

 

We had various outstanding bank loans of approximately $2.1 million and $1.6 million as of September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively. We have also entered into non-cancellable operating lease agreements for several offices and operating facilities. The leases are expiring through 2029.

 

The following table sets forth our contractual obligations and commercial commitments as of September 30, 2021:

 

   Payment Due by Period 
   Total   Less than
1 Year
   1 – 3 Years   3 – 5 Years   More than
5 Years
 
Operating lease arrangements  $3,455,836   $1,037,870   $1,229,398   $606,138   $582,430 
Bank loans   2,096,624    1,068,442    1,028,182    -    - 
Total  $5,552,460   $2,106,312   $2,257,580   $606,138   $582,430 

 

Off-balance Sheet Commitments and Arrangements 

 

As of September 30, 2020 and September 30, 2021, we had capital injection obligation in five entities totaled $10,289,124 and $ 10,839,269, respectively. Pursuant to the Chinese company laws, the timing of the contribution to the registered capital is specified in the article of incorporation, the remaining contribution can be made before year 2030, unless any subsequent shareholder meeting adjusts this capital injection plan.

 

Except for the capital injection obligation mentioned above, there were no off-balance sheet arrangements for the years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, that have, or that in the opinion of the management are likely to have, a current or future material effect on our financial condition or results of operations.

  

Impact of Inflation

 

We do not believe the impact of inflation on our Company is material. Our operations are in China and China’s inflation rates have been relatively stable in the last three years: approximately 2.1% in 2018, 2.9% in 2019 and 2.5% in 2020. 

 

Critical Accounting Policies

 

We prepare our consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP, which requires us to make judgments, estimates and assumptions that affect our reported amount of assets, liabilities, revenue, costs and expenses, and any related disclosures. Although there were no material changes made to the accounting estimates and assumptions in the past two years, we continually evaluate these estimates and assumptions based on the most recently available information, our own historical experience and various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Since the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, actual results could differ from our expectations as a result of changes in our estimates.

 

We believe that the following accounting policies involve a higher degree of judgment and complexity in their application and require us to make significant accounting estimates. Accordingly, these are the policies we believe are the most critical to understanding and evaluating our consolidated financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Uses of estimates

 

In preparing the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP, management makes estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. These estimates are based on information as of the date of the consolidated financial statements. Significant estimates required to be made by management include, but are not limited to useful lives of property and equipment and intangible assets, the recoverability of long-lived assets, provision necessary for contingent liabilities, revenue recognition and advances from customers, valuation of prepayments and other assets and realization of deferred tax assets. Actual results could differ from those estimates. 

  

Revenue recognition

 

The Company, through its China based subsidiaries, generates revenues primarily from tuitions fees and other fees collected from services provided. Revenue is recognized when the price is fixed or determinable, persuasive evidence of the arrangement exists, the service is performed or the product is delivered and collectability of the resulting receivable is reasonably assured

 

The Company has adopted ASC 606, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” and all subsequent ASUs that modified ASC 606, using the modified retrospective approach for the year ended September 30, 2019 and has elected to apply it retrospectively for the year ended September 30, 2018. ASC 606 establishes principles for reporting information about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from the entity’s contracts to provide goods or services to customers. The core principle requires an entity to recognize revenue to depict the transfer of goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration that it expects to be entitled to receive in exchange for those goods or services recognized as performance obligations are satisfied. This new guidance provides a five-step analysis in determining when and how revenue is recognized. Under the new guidance, revenue is recognized when a customer obtains control of promised goods or services and is recognized in an amount that reflects the consideration which the entity expects to receive in exchange for those goods or services. In addition, the new guidance requires disclosure of the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. 

 

The Company currently generates its revenue from the following main sources:

 

Tutorial service revenue

 

The Company offers various off-campus small-group foreign language tutoring programs. Each contract of tutorial service programs represents a series of distinct services, which is delivery of various courses. The services have substantially the same pattern of transfer to the students, as such, they are considered as a single performance obligation, which is satisfied proportionately based on a straight-line basis over the program term as students simultaneously receive and consume the benefits of these services throughout the program term. The Company is the principal in providing tutorial services as it controls such services before the services are transferred to the customer. The program fees are generally collected in advance and are initially recorded as deferred revenue. Generally, the Company approves refunds for any remaining classes to students who decide to withdraw from a course within the predetermined period in the contract. The refund is equal to and limited to the amount related to the undelivered classes. The Company estimates and records refund liability for the potion the Company does not expect to be entitled based on historical refund ratio on a portfolio basis using the expected value method.

 

Logistic and consulting services

 

The Company also provides logistic and consulting services to customers, including but not limited to academic management, , human resources, procurement and logistics management services. The promised services in each education and management service contract are combined and accounted as a single performance obligation, as the promised services in a contract are not distinct and are considered as a significant integrated service. The revenue is recognized on a straight-line basis over the period of the education and management service, as customers simultaneously receive and consume the benefits of these services throughout the service period.

 

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Practical expedient

 

As a practical expedient, the Company elects to record the incremental costs of obtaining a contract as an expense when incurred if the amortization period of the asset that the entity otherwise would have recognized is one year or less. The Company has applied the new revenue standard requirements to a portfolio of contracts (or performance obligations) with similar characteristics for transactions where it is expected that the effects on the financial statements of applying the revenue recognition guidance to the portfolio would not differ materially from applying this guidance to the individual contracts (or performance obligations) within that portfolio. Therefore, the Company elects the portfolio approach in applying the new revenue guidance. 

 

Contract assets

 

In accordance with ASC340-40-25-1, an entity shall recognize as an asset the incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer if the entity expects to recover those costs. Entities sometimes incur costs to obtain a contract that otherwise would not have been incurred. Entities also may incur costs to fulfill a contract before a good or service is provided to a customer. The revenue standard provides guidance on costs to obtain and fulfill a contract that should be recognized as assets. Costs that are recognized as assets are amortized over the period that the related goods or services transfer to the customer, and are periodically reviewed for impairment. Only incremental costs should be recognized as assets. Incremental costs of obtaining a contract are those costs that the entity would not have incurred if the contract had not been obtained.

 

As of September 30, 2021, in order to develop non-English foreign language tutorial service for middle school students, the Company incurred total of approximately $1.8 million (RMB11.7 million) commission type fee and administration costs paid to agents to facilitate the related contracts with students for the tutorial service period, generally from 4 to 29 months tutorial service periods. The Company will not incur such costs if the Company does not enter into the tutorial service contracts with the students, as a result, the cost of approximately $1.8 million (RMB11.7 million) is considered as the incremental costs of obtaining contracts and shall be capitalized and amortize over tutorial service period. For the year ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, the Company amortized related amount of $1,097,346 and $122,144 into selling expense, respectively. As of September 30, 2021 and 2020, the contract assets amounted to $672,506 and $161,537.

   

Refund liability

 

Refund liability mainly relates to the estimated refunds that are expected to be provided to students if they decide they no longer want to take the course. Refund liability estimates are based on historical refund ratio on a portfolio basis using the expected value method. As of September 30, 2021 and 2020, refund liability amounted to $348,472 and $246,935, respectively.

 

Cost of revenues

 

Cost of revenues mainly consists of salaries to teachers, rental expenses for office space and learning centers, depreciation and amortization of properties and equipment and teaching materials used in the provision of educational services.

 

Income taxes

 

In China, the Company accounts for current income taxes in accordance with the laws of the relevant tax authorities. Deferred income taxes are recognized when temporary differences exist between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their reported amounts in the consolidated financial statements. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period including the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.

 

An uncertain tax position is recognized as a benefit only if it is “more likely than not” that the tax position would be sustained in a tax examination. The amount recognized is the largest amount of tax benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized on examination. For tax positions not meeting the “more likely than not” test, no tax benefit is recorded. Penalties and interest incurred related to underpayment of income tax are classified as income tax expense in the period incurred. No significant penalties or interest relating to income taxes have been incurred for the years ended September 30, 2021, and 2020. All of the tax returns of the Company’s subsidiaries in PRC remain subject to examination by the tax authorities for five years from the date of filing.

 

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Entities incorporated in Hong Kong are subject to profits tax in Hong Kong at the rate of 16.5%.

 

The Cayman Islands currently levies no taxes on individuals or corporations based upon profits, income, gains, or appreciation and there is no taxation in the nature of inheritance tax or estate duty. There are no other taxes likely to be material to us levied by the Government of the Cayman Islands except for stamp duties which may be applicable on instruments executed in, or, after execution, brought within the jurisdiction of the Cayman Islands. No stamp duty is payable in the Cayman Islands on the issue of shares by, or any transfers of shares of, Cayman Islands companies (except those which hold interests in land in the Cayman Islands). There are no exchange control regulations or currency restrictions in the Cayman Islands.

 

Payments of dividends and capital in respect of our Ordinary Shares will not be subject to taxation in the Cayman Islands and no withholding will be required on the payment of a dividend or capital to any holder of our Ordinary Shares, as the case may be, nor will gains derived from the disposal of our Ordinary Shares be subject to Cayman Islands income or corporation tax. 

 

Foreign currency translation

 

The functional currencies of the Company are the local currency of the county in which the subsidiaries operate. The Company’s financial statements are reported using U.S. Dollars. The results of operations and the consolidated statements of cash flows denominated in foreign currencies are translated at the average rates of exchange during the reporting period. Assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies at the balance sheet date are translated at the applicable rates of exchange in effect on that date. The equity denominated in the functional currencies is translated at the historical rates of exchange at the time of capital contributions. Because cash flows are translated based on the average translation rates, amounts related to assets and liabilities reported on the consolidated statements of cash flows will not necessarily agree with changes in the corresponding balances on the consolidated balance sheets. Translation adjustments arising from the use of different exchange rates from period to period are included as a separate component in accumulated other comprehensive income included in consolidated statements of changes in equity. Gains and losses from foreign currency transactions are included in the consolidated statement of income and comprehensive income. 

 

Since the Company operates primarily in the PRC, the Company’s functional currency is the Chinese Yuan (“RMB”). The Company’s consolidated financial statements have been translated into the reporting currency of U.S. Dollars (“US$”). The RMB is not freely convertible into foreign currency and all foreign exchange transactions must take place through authorized institutions. No representation is made that the RMB amounts could have been, or could be, converted into US$ at the rates used in the translation.

 

The following table outlines the currency exchange rates that were used in creating the consolidated financial statements in this report:

 

   For the
year ended
September 30,
2021
  For the
year ended
September 30,
2020
Balance sheet items, except for equity accounts  US$1=RMB 6.4580  US$1=RMB 6.8033
Items in the statements of income and cash flows  US$1=RMB 6.5095  US$1=RMB 7.0077

 

Comprehensive income

 

Comprehensive income consists of two components, net income and other comprehensive income (loss). Other comprehensive income (loss) refers to revenue, expenses, gains and losses that under U.S. GAAP are recorded as an element of shareholders’ equity but are excluded from net income. Other comprehensive income (loss) consists of foreign currency translation adjustment resulting from the Company not using US$ as its functional currency.

 

Segment reporting

 

The Company’s chief operating decision-maker (“CODM”) has been identified as its Chief Executive Officer, who reviews the consolidated results when making decisions about allocating resources and assessing the performance of the Company as a whole and the management of the Company concludes that it has only one reportable segment. The Company does not distinguish between markets or segments for the purpose of internal reporting. The Company’s long-lived assets are all located in the PRC and substantially all of the Company’s revenues are derived from the PRC. Therefore, no geographical segments are presented.

 

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Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

The Company considers the applicability and impact of all accounting standards updates (“ASUs”). Management periodically reviews new accounting standards that are issued.

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which requires lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset and lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases, including operating leases, with a term in excess of 12 months. The guidance also expands the quantitative and qualitative disclosure requirements. In July 2018, the FASB issued updates to the lease standard making transition requirements less burdensome. The update provides an option to apply the transition provisions of the new standard at its adoption date instead of at the earliest comparative period presented in the company’s financial statements. The new guidance requires the lessee to record operating leases on the balance sheet with a right-of-use asset and corresponding liability for future payment obligations. FASB further issued ASU 2018-11 “Target Improvement” and ASU 2018-20 “Narrow-scope Improvements for Lessors.” In June 2020, the FASB issued ASU No. 2020-05, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) and Leases (Topic 842) Effective Dates for Certain Entities” (“ASU 2020-05”) in response to the ongoing impacts to businesses in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. ASU 2020-05 provides a limited deferral of the effective dates for implementing previously issued ASU 842 to give some relief to businesses and the difficulties they are facing during the pandemic. ASU 2020-05 affects entities in the “all other” category and public Not-For-Profit entities that have not gone into effect yet regarding ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). Entities in the “all other” category may defer to fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022. As an emerging growth company, the Company will adopt this guidance effective October 1, 2022. The Company is evaluating the impact on its consolidated financial statements. 

 

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-13, “Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments,” which requires the Company to measure and recognize expected credit losses for financial assets held and not accounted for at fair value through net income. In November 2018, April 2019 and May 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-19, “Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses,” “ASU No. 2019-04, Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses,” “Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, and Topic 825, Financial Instruments,” and “ASU No. 2019-05, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses (Topic 326): Targeted Transition Relief,” which provided additional implementation guidance on the previously issued ASU. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020. The ASU requires a modified retrospective adoption method. The Company is still evaluating the impact of adoption on its financial statements and disclosures.

 

In August 2018, the FASB Accounting Standards Board issued ASU No. 2018-13, “Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement” (“ASU 2018-13”). ASU 2018-13 modifies the disclosure requirements on fair value measurements. ASU 2018-13 is effective for public entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted for any removed or modified disclosures. The removed and modified disclosures will be adopted on a retrospective basis and the new disclosures will be adopted on a prospective basis. The Company does not expect this guidance will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

 

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740)—Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes. ASU 2019-12 is intended to simplify accounting for income taxes. It removes certain exceptions to the general principles in Topic 740 and amends existing guidance to improve consistent application. ASU 2019-12 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020 and interim periods within those fiscal years, which is fiscal 2021 for us, with early adoption permitted. The Company does not expect adoption of the new guidance to have a significant impact on the Company’s financial statements.

 

Except for the above-mentioned pronouncements, there are no new recent issued accounting standards that will have a material impact on the consolidated financial position, statements of operations and cash flows.

 

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INDUSTRY

 

All the information and data presented in this section have been derived from the industry report of Frost & Sullivan International Limited (“Frost & Sullivan”) commissioned by us in October 2021 entitled “Independent Market Study on China’s Non-English foreign Language Training and Zhongkao, Gaokao Training Market Study” (the “Industry Report”) unless otherwise noted. Frost & Sullivan has advised us that the statistical and graphical information contained herein is drawn from its database and other sources. The following discussion contains projections for future growth, which may not occur at the rates that are projected or at all.

 

Education Industry in China

 

All information and data presented in this section has been derived from the Frost & Sullivan Report. Frost & Sullivan has advised us that the statistical and graphical information contained herein is drawn from its database and other sources. The following discussion includes projections for future growth, which may not occur at the rates that are projected or at all.

 

ANALYSIS OF CHINA’S NON-ENGLISH FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING SERVICES MARKET

 

Non-English foreign languages refer to all the foreign languages other than English. China’s Non-English Foreign Language Training Market is defined as non-English foreign language teaching and training services market where students obtain non-English foreign language training and training services provided by training institutions. The services could be provided either online or offline. The market is further segmented into interest-oriented, study/work-oriented and College entrance examination, or Gaokao-oriented non-English foreign language trainings.

 

Market Size of China’s Non-English Foreign Language Training Services Market

 

The market of non-English foreign language training services increased from RMB10.7 billion in 2015 to RMB21.2 billion in 2019, representing a CAGR of approximately 18.6%, mainly due to the growing popularity of non-English foreign language among Chinese. In 2020, the market dropped due to the spread of COVID-19. However, it is expected that the market will recover soon after the spread of the disease is largely controlled in China.

 

Going forward, the market is likely to keep the growing trend as non-English foreign language talents are becoming increasingly important in China. The market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of approximately 16.1% from 2019 to 2024, reaching RMB44.7 billion in 2024.

 

Japanese training services accounts for the largest part in the non-English foreign language training services market in China. In 2019, Japanese took approximately 53.8% of the total market share. Spanish accounted for approximately 3.3% of the total market in 2019, increasing from approximately 2.8% of the total market in 2015. The market is expected to keep the fast growing pace due to the promotion of non-English foreign language test in Gaokao.

 

Revenue of Non-English Foreign Language Training Services Market (China), 2015 – 2024E

 

 

Source: Frost & Sullivan

 

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Market Drivers of China’s Non-English Foreign Language Training Services Market

 

Growing Number of Students Studying Abroad: Over the past years, the number of Chinese students studying abroad has been growing and China has become the world’s largest student origin country. As of 2019, the number of students to start studying abroad was 716,200. The CAGR of 2015 to 2019 was approximately 8.1%. The number of students studying abroad increased from 1,264,300 to 1,636,500 with a CAGR of approximately 6.7% from 2015 to 2019. Around 25% of the students choose to study in non-English speaking countries. For example, Chinese students studying in Spain increased from 8,400 in 2015 to 13,400 in 2019, representing a CAGR of approximately 12.4%. During the same period, Chinese students studying in Japan increased from 94,100 to 124,400 at a CAGR of 7.2%. Basic language skills are needed in order to live and study in these countries. Under these circumstances, an increasing number of Chinese students are enrolled in non-English foreign language training institutions before going abroad, which drives the development of non-English foreign language training services market.

 

Increasing Demand for Non-English foreign Language Talents: Chinese enterprises have accelerated their globalization process, creating an increasing demand for bilingual and multilingual talents. Proficiency in non-English foreign language is sometimes essential for conducting various business activities across different companies from other countries. Globalization has also raised the standard of career requirements. The awareness of the importance of non-English foreign language training has prompted an increasing number of adults to improve their language skills.

 

Competitive landscape of China’s Non-English foreign Language Training Services Market

 

China’s non-English foreign language training services market is extremely fragmented with top 3 players only accounting for 5.7% market in 2019.

 

The Company generated approximately RMB33.8 million from non-English foreign language training services in 2019, accounting for approximately 0.2% market share in China.

 

 

Source: Frost & Sullivan

 

China’s Spanish training services market is also fragmented. In 2019, the top 3 providers together took approximately 5.9% market share in terms of revenue.

 

Company H was China’s largest Spanish training service provider with a revenue of RMB16.9 million, accounting for approximately 2.4% market share in 2019. The Company ranked at the second place with a revenue of RMB13.9 million in 2019 and took approximately 2.0% market share.

 

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Source: Frost & Sullivan

 

Market Size of China’s Gaokao-oriented Non-English Foreign Language Training Services Market

 

The market of Gaokao-oriented non-English foreign language training services witnessed a rapid growth from 2015 to 2019. In 2019, this segment reached RMB601.5 million, accounting for approximately 3% of the total non-English foreign language training service market. Compared to other segment of non-English foreign language training services market,this segment is the only segment that is not strongly impacted by the spread of COVID-19 in 2020 because Gaokao was held and students participated in the 2020 Gaokao.

 

Going forward, the market is expected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 73.7% from 2019 to 2024, reaching RMB9.5 billion in 2024.

 

Revenue of Gaokao-oriented Non-English foreign Language Training Services Market (China), 2015 – 2024E

 

 

Source: Frost & Sullivan

 

Market Drivers of China’s Gaokao-oriented Non-English Foreign Language Training Services Market

 

Fierce Competition: Gaokao is the most critical set of examinations for a student in China as many students and their parents believe that it determines the future of a student. Comparing with English, competition for students who take non-English foreign language test in Gaokao is less fierce as the tests are generally easier than that of English. For example, the vocabulary for Japanese test in Gaokao is around 2,000, much less than the number of 3,000 thousand in English test. Hence, students who are not good at English may prefer to choose non-English foreign languages. The tough competition has and is likely to further drive the development of Gaokao-oriented non-English foreign language training services market in China.

 

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Growing Penetration Rate of Non-English Foreign Language Test in Gaokao: The penetration rate of non-English foreign language test in Gaokao is rather low at current stage. In 2019, approximately 0.5% of the total students participating in Gaokao chose non-English foreign language for the foreign language test. However, the PRC government initiated One Road One Belt strategy in recent years to invest in nearly 70 countries and international organizations. In line with the development of One Road One Belt strategy, the PRC government has noticed that it has become increasingly important to foster multilingual talents in order to cooperate with other countries. For example, the Ministry of Education issued the Letter Regarding the Reply to No.0013 (No.006 of Education Category) Proposal of the First Session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee in September 2018. In the letter, the Ministry of Education paid high attention on the set of courses of non-English foreign languages in primary and secondary schools, promoted multilingual curricula and the exams of non-English foreign language in Gaokao and encouraged the development of multilingual talents. In line with the promotion of the non-English foreign language tests, it is expected that around 4% of the total Gaokao takers would choose non-English foreign language by 2024. The growing penetration rate is likely to drive the market in the coming years.

 

Increasing Disposable Income and Expenditure on Education: Along with the growth of macro economy, the disposable income of Chinese residents has also witnessed stable growth from 2015 to 2019. Benefiting from the growing disposable income, the per capita annual expenditure on education in China grew from RMB1,456 in 2015 to RMB2,132 in 2019. Also, as Chinese parents pay much attention on children’s education and score of Gaokao, it is likely that an increasing share of students choose to take non-English foreign language test in Gaokao would participate in training to achieve higher score. The growing spending on training services is likely to sustain and further drive the development of Gaokao-oriented non-English foreign language training services market in China.

 

Opportunities and Challenges of China’s Non-English Foreign Language Training Services Market

 

Opportunities:

 

Online Education Revolution: With the increasing penetration rate of the Internet and electronic equipment such as laptops and smart phones, the online education market provided new development opportunities to the non-English foreign language training services market. Proper online learning tools and courses, such as live class, are more flexible and convenient for students to arrange study time. The online education enlarges the capability of training service providers as it allows a larger number of students to attend the same class. It also attracts students who are not able to attend offline classes. In addition, new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence will provide innovation of learning scenes with more accuracy and interactivity. Under this circumstance, the revolution of online education is expected to present great development potential for the market.

 

Opportunities in Tier 3 and Lower Tier Cities: Compared with residents in tier 1 and tier 2 cities like Beijing and Shanghai, the willingness of taking part in non-English foreign language training of residents in tier 3 and lower tier cities is relatively lower due to the high training fee. The market in tier 3 and lower tier cities still shows large potential for market players. As the consumption power of citizens in tier 3 and lower tier cities increases, expanding the business to tier 3 and lower tier cities is likely to be new growth opportunities for the market players who plan to establish branches in these regions.

 

Challenges:

 

Fierce Competition on Resources: The non-English foreign language training services market in China has witnessed a growth in the past five years. With limited human resources in the market, it is extremely important for non-English foreign language training services providers to compete for talents by paying high-level salary and providing friendly working environment to teachers. Players have been competing for highly qualified teachers, as well as seeking for better school locations to attract students. Market players also need to invest on resources such as online software development, equipment updating and renting expenses. The scarcity of resources has become a big threat to the players, especially for small ones.

 

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Increasing Labor Costs and Rental Expenses: As the labor costs increase in recent years, the Gaokao-oriented non-English foreign language training service providers are facing an increasing cost of wages and salaries. As teaching resources are relatively scare in the market, players need to pay higher wages and salaries in order to attract talents. In addition, the learning centers of the institutions are generally located in busy downtown areas in the cities where the rents are high. The increasing operating expenses are a challenge to the operation of Gaokao-oriented non-English foreign language training services operators.

 

ANALYSIS OF YANGTZE RIVER DELTA’S GAOKAO RETAKE TRAINING SERVICES MARKET

 

In order to be admitted to colleges in China, upper secondary school students are required to take the college entrance examinations, or Gaokao. Gaokao is the most critical set of examinations for a student as the results determine whether a student will be able to attend a high-ranked college, or any at all, which in turn has a significant impact on the student’s future job prospects. Students whose Gaokao results are not satisfactory may study for another year and retake the examinations the next year. Some of these students take the examinations for more than two times. Retake training service refers to the tutoring provided to students who decide to retake the exams of Gaokao, hoping that they would get better scores the next year.

 

Benefitting from the favorable policy that public schools are not allowed to enroll former students, the total revenue of specialized schools that provide Gaokao retake training services has witnessed a growth from 2015 to 2019 with a CAGR of approximately 3.6%. The market is likely to continue its growthing in the coming future due to the fierce competition of Gaokao. The number of students enrolled in Gaokao retake training services in Zhejiang increased from 9.1 thousand to 9.8 thousand from 2015 to 2019. The number is forecast to reach 11.4 thousand in 2024. 

 

Number of Former Students Enrolled in Specialized Gaokao Retake Training Schools (Zhejiang), 2015 – 2024E

 

 

Source: Frost & Sullivan

 

Competitive landscape of Zhejiang’s Gaokao Retake Training Services Market

 

The Gaokao retake training services market in Zhejiang province is relatively concentrated with dozens of services providers. In 2019, the top five providers together occupied 41.9% of the market share in terms of student enrollments.

 

Company J was the largest Gaokao retake training services providers in 2019, the total enrollment of Company J was 1.6 thousand students, accounting for 16.3% of the market. Company K ranked at the second place with a number of 1.5 thousand students. The Company ranked at the third place in the Gaokao retake training services market in Zhejiang province. The student enrollments of the Company was 0.4 thousand in 2019, taking approximately 4.1% market share in Zhejiang province. Followed by Company L and Company M, they each had approximately 0.3 thousand students enrolled in 2019.

 

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Source: Frost & Sullivan

 

Opportunities and Challenges of Yangtze River Delta’s Gaokao Retake Training Services Market

 

Opportunities:

 

Increasing Penetration Rate of Specialized Schools: Although public schools are not allowed to enroll former students who want to retake Gaokao according to the Notice of the Ministry of Education on Several Issues about Strengthening School-Running Management of Basic Education issued by the Ministry of Education in February 2020, a large number of students still choose to study in formal upper secondary schools. However, as the supervision becomes stricter in China, it is likely that an increasing share of students would attend specialized schools focusing on providing retake training services in the future.

 

Challenges:

 

Growing Concentration Rate: Students and their parents prefer schools with high reputation, and high enrollment rate. Schools with good track record performance can attract more students. Hence the concentration rate of the market is likely to keep growing. It would become harder for small brands without good track record performance to recruit students.

 

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BUSINESS

 

Overview

 

We are not a Chinese operating company, but rather a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Our Class A Ordinary Shares offered in this prospectus are shares of our Cayman Islands holding company. As a holding company with no material operations of our own, we conduct our operations through our operating entities established in the PRC.

 

We are a leading provider of Spanish tutorial services in China in 2019, according to the Industry Report. Established in 1997 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, we have over twenty years of experience providing educational services that focus on the development of each of our student’s strengths and potential, and the promotion of life-long skills and interests in learning. Prior to the Reorganization, we operated one premium primary private school and one premium secondary private school through two VIEs, in addition to our current operations that include tutorial centers for children and adults, one educational company that partners with high schools to offer language classes to their students, and one logistics company that provides logistic and consulting services. . Since the Reorganization, we no longer operate primary or secondary private schools and no longer use a VIE structure.

 

Primary and Secondary Education Services Provided by the VIEs prior to the Reorganization

 

Prior to the Reorganization, the VIEs, Ouhai Art School and Chongwen Middle School, operated premium primary and secondary private schools in China. Neither we nor our subsidiaries owned any equity interest in the VIEs. Instead, we controlled and received the economic benefits of the VIEs’ business operations through a series of contractual arrangements, also known as VIE Agreements. Under U.S. GAAP, the Company was deemed to have a controlling financial interest in, and be the primary beneficiary of, the VIEs, for accounting purposes, because pursuant to the VIE Agreements, the operations of the VIEs were solely for the benefit of the Company. As such, we consolidated the financial results of the VIEs in the consolidated financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020.

 

Tutorial Services

 

Our China-based subsidiary, Golden Sun Wenzhou, and its subsidiaries, operate tutorial centers in China. For fiscal years ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, 90% and 88% of our total revenue (excluding revenues from discontinued operations) was generated from our tutorial centers, respectively. Each of our centers focuses on different groups of targeted students by offering different tutorial programs.

 

Yangfushan Tutorial offers a Gaokao repeater tutorial program to high school students who retake Gaokao. Yangfushan Tutorial is also entrusted to offer high school program education to students of the Central Radio & Television Secondary Specialized School  located in Wenzhou City, China.

 

Hongkou Tutorial offers various English and other foreign language tutorial programs and Gaokao and Zhongkao repeater tutorial programs to individual students as well as companies and other organizations.

 

Jicai Tutorial offers non-English foreign language tutorial programs to individual students, companies and other organizations.

 

Our programs offered to repeaters are specifically targeting the upcoming Gaokao or Zhongkao. As for foreign language tutoring, we offer English, Spanish, German, French and Japanese courses to students who intend to study abroad, individuals seeking jobs that require certain proficiency in these languages, and companies or organizations whose workers need to have certain proficiency in these languages.  

 

In addition to tutorial programs offered by our tutorial centers, Qinshang Education, our China-based subsidiary established in December 2019, partners with high schools to provide non-English foreign language (Spanish and French as secondary language) tutoring services to their students. As of May 2022, Qinshang Education worked with 62 partner-schools serving approximately 2,732 students in seven provinces in China. Revenue from Qinshang Education increased by approximately $4.4 million for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2021, compared to the fiscal year ended September 30, 2020. For the fiscal years 2021 and 2020, revenue generated by Qingshang Education accounted for 31.73%, and 4.74%, respectively, of our total revenue (excluding revenues from the discontinued operations). We believe that more Gaokao participants may choose non-English foreign language as a subject in Gaokao . Due to our strength and reputation in offering non-English foreign language courses to Gaokao participants, we expect Qinshang Education’s business to continue to grow in the near future. 

 

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Revenues from providing tutorial programs at our tutorial centers and language training program, primarily consists of tutorial fees and, in some instances, of room and board fees as well.

 

Logistics and Consulting Services

 

Additionally, since December 2019, we started generating a small percentage of our revenue from providing logistics and consulting services through one logistics company, Lilong Logistics. As of the date of this prospectus, we have entered into service agreement with six customers. For the fiscal years 2021 and 2020, we generated $1,508,930 and $907,508 in revenue from providing logistic and consulting services.

 

Our Geographic Coverage  

 

Our tutorial centers span over four locations across Wenzhou city and Hangzhou city in Zhejiang province, and Shanghai city, China. The following map illustrates the geographic locations of our tutorial centers, as well as high partner-schools that Qinshang Education provides on-site non-English foreign languages services, as of the date of this prospectus:

 

 

  Our tutorial centers
     
  Our partner-schools 

 

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Our Past Performance

 

The following discussion of our historical performance does not include revenues from the discontinued operations, which were divested as a result of the Reorganization.

 

Revenue increased by approximately $7.3 million, or 94%, to approximately $15.0 million for the year ended September 30, 2021 from approximately $7.7 million for the year ended September 30, 2020. The increase in revenue was mainly due to an increase of approximately $6.7 million in tutorial services revenue in fiscal year 2021. Our net income was approximately $2.2 million for the year ended September 30, 2021, representing an increase of approximately $2.1 million from net income of approximately $0.05 million for the year ended September 30, 2020. We had a net income from continuing operation of approximately $1.3 million for the year ended September 30, 2021, and had a net loss from continuing operation of approximately $0.1 million for the year ended September 30, 2020. The following table sets forth the breakdown of our revenue and net income for the year ended September 30, 2021 and 2020. 

 

   

For the

Fiscal Year
Ended
September 30,
2021

   

For the

Fiscal Year
Ended

September 30,
2020

 
             
Tutorial services   $ 13,518,061     $ 6,827,677  
Logistic and Consulting Services     1,508,930       907,508  
Total revenues     15,026,991       7,735,185  
Net income (loss) from continuing operation     1,306,360       (145,568 )
Net income from discontinued operations     855,040       200,489  
Net income   $ 2,161,400     $ 54,921  

  

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, our revenue decreased to $7.7 million for the year ended September 30, 2020 from $8.4 million for the year ended September 30, 2019. Our net income amounted to approximately $0.05 million and $3.5 million for the year ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. We had a net loss from continuing operation of approximately $0.1 million for the year ended September 30, 2020, and net income from continuing operation of approximately $1.6 million for the year ended September 30, 2019. The following table sets forth the breakdown of our revenue and net income for the years ended September 30, 2020 and 2019.

 

    For the
Fiscal Year
Ended
September 30,
2020
    For the
Fiscal Year
Ended
September 30,
2019
 
             
Tutorial services   $ 6,827,677     $ 7,927,196  
Logistic and Consulting Services     907,508       482,868  
Total revenues     7,735,185       8,410,064  
Net income (loss) from continuing operation     (145,568 )     1,600,362  
Net income from discontinued operations     200,489       1,908,897  
Net income   $ 54,921     $ 3,509,259  

 

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Our Competitive Strengths

 

We believe that the following competitive strengths contribute to our business growth and differentiate us from our competitors:

 

Unique niche in non-English foreign language education with significant market coverage

 

We partner with selective high schools throughout China to provide Spanish as secondary language to their students, offering them on-site language programs. In 2019, we were the second largest Spanish as secondary language provider in China according to the Industry Report, and our market share of this service market was approximately 2.0% in the entire PRC, and approximately 9.3% in Shanghai, ranking at the first place in the market of Spanish training services market in Shanghai.

 

We believe that our leadership position, coupled with our strong brand and reputation in the market, have effectively created a barrier to entry to new competitors in Shanghai and surrounding areas for non-English foreign language services, and nationwide for Spanish as a secondary language. We believe that we are well-positioned to compete in the highly fragmented non-English foreign language tutoring services market in China.

 

Well-positioned in Gaokao repeater tutoring market in Wenhzou City

 

Yangfushan Tutorial is the only school that offers a full-time program to Gaokao repeaters in Wenzhou city, China. The campus of Yangfushan Tutorial covers approximately seven acres with a gross floor area, or GFA, of more than 50,000 sq. ft. Over 10 years, Yangfushan Tutorial has served more than 5,000 students, with over 3,500 successfully admitted to 4-year university programs. Currently, a majority of Yangfushan Tutorial’s teachers hold Advanced Teaching Qualifications, the highest primary and secondary school teacher qualification available in China and are recognized as leaders in their respective academic subjects on the county/city levels. Yangfushan Tutorial has been recognized as a Top 10 Gaokao repeater institutions by China Education Net (China’s largest and well-recognized education online resources center) in 2010, and School of Excellence evaluated by the county education bureau in 2018. With a 100% university acceptance rate in Gaokao in 2021 and 2020,  Yangfushan Tutorial has one of the highest acceptance rate and is the third largest in student enrollments among schools offering Gaokao repeater programs in Zhejiang province, and we believe that Yangfushan Tutorial is well-positioned to remain one of the top Gaokao repeater schools in the region.

 

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Consistent high-quality education with excellent teachers

 

We are committed to provide high quality educational services. We have an excellent and highly-committed team of professional teachers and educational staff. As of May 2022, we employed 494 teachers and educational staff. Among these teachers and educational staff, approximately 90% held bachelor’s degrees or higher. Our teachers and educational staff have an average of 13 years of educational experience. We also show our commitment to teaching excellence by following a highly rigorous and selective recruiting policy, providing continuing training in teaching techniques and skills, offering opportunities for career advancement, and encouraging experienced teachers to mentor or give guidance to young teachers. Additionally, to reduce the turn-over rate of our teachers and for consistent education quality, we provide friendly working environment, clear career paths and opportunities to promotion, and competitive benefits and perks. Leveraging our highly-qualified faculty team, we have developed strong research and development capabilities. We have also published textbooks in Spanish, German, and French as second language.

 

Strong management team with rich education experience

 

Our management team has a proven track record in the education and education management industry. In particular, Mr. Xueyuan Weng, our CEO, has extensive experience as an educator and in corporate management. Mr. Weng has been involved with our tutorial centers since April 2008. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Weng served as a teacher, director and school principal at various schools for over 20 years. He has in-depth understanding of the operations of our Company and tutorial centers. Under Mr. Weng’s leadership and management, we have become a leading non-English foreign language provider in China.

 

We believe our management team’s extensive experience in the education sector has provided us with valuable industry insight and management expertise, enabling us to manage our operations and growth and promote our brand as a leading provider of private educational services in China.

 

Our Growth Strategies

 

Our goal is to continuously promote and improve our position as a premium private tutorial services provider in the Yangtze River Delta Region and a leading Spanish as secondary language provider in the PRC by pursuing the following growth strategies:

 

Continue to build our brand and reputation

 

We plan to continue promoting our “Golden Sun” brand in China’s private tutorial services market. We believe that building our brand and reputation for providing tutorial services will allow us to reach a broader base of students and increase our market share in student enrollment. We intend to expand our advertising on major Internet portals, the national media and reputable educational publications. In addition, we will hire additional representatives to enhance our recruitment coverage in new regions that we plan to enter into from time to time.

 

Significantly expand our network of partner-schools nationwide to offer Spanish as second language program

 

We plan to solidify our position as a top Spanish as second language educational services provider by not only ensuring our teachers are highly qualified, but also significantly expand our network of partner schools. We have entered into cooperative agreements with 62 partner schools since December 2019. In the next five years, we plan to work with at least 500 partner schools across China. We plan to achieve this goal by leveraging our sales network, increasing local advertising efforts, encouraging referrals by our existing partner-schools, students, teachers and parents. We also plan to acquire non-English foreign language tutorial centers to expand our service level and geographical coverage. Our goal is to become the largest Spanish as second language program provider in China.

 

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Expand our network of partner -schools and tutorial centers through various measures and maximize synergies through integration of these entities

 

We plan to expand our network of partner -schools and tutorial centers by organically establishing non-English foreign language and Gaokao repeater tutorial centers, duplicating our model of providing foreign language tutorial services to schools, and selectively pursuing acquisitions of one language school in the U.S. and one language school in Spain, in order to provide our non-English foreign language students opportunities to further their language studies outside of China. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not identified target schools for acquisition. We look for schools that share a common purpose with us and that focus on creating an environment of strong teaching. We expect the target schools to have an area of at least 10,000 sq. ft. with at least 500 enrolled students, and certified by the Cervantes Institute, a well-recognized non-profit organization created by the Spanish government for the promotion of the Spanish language. We also look for schools with sound financial health in areas with sufficient financial resources and economic foundation to support private education.

 

Our Tutorial Services

 

We operate tutorial centers through our China based subsidiaries. All of our tutorial centers are located in either Wenzhou city, Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province or Shanghai in China. In December, 2019, we established Qinshang Education to offer non-English foreign language tutorial programs to students enrolled in the high schools we select and partner with throughout the PRC, or partner schools, with a focus on Spanish language.

 

The following table sets forth the basic information of our tutorial service providers as of May 2022.

 

Name   Year
Opened /
Acquired
    Type   Programs / Services Offered   Number of
Students
    Number of
Classes
    Number of
Teachers and
Educational
Staff
 
Yangfushan Tutorial     2008/2018 (1)   Tutorial center;
operated as a Not-for-profit school
  Gaokao Repeater Tutorial Program     578       10       25  
                Sub-total     578       10       25  
Hongkou Tutorial     2000/2015 (2)   Tutorial center;
operated as a company
  Gaokao Repeater Tutorial Program     71       4          
                English Program     355       51          
                Non-English foreign
Language Program
    336       67          
                Sub-total     762       122       44  
Jicai Tutorial     2001/2016 (3)     Tutorial center;
Hangzhou Jicai: operated as a For-profit school;
  Non-English foreign
Language Program
   

289

 

     

51

 

     

12

 

 

 

 
      2017/2019     Shanghai Jicai: operated as a Not-for-profit school         3721       672       123  
                Sub-total     4010       723       135  
Qinshang     2019     Operated as a company   Non-English foreign Language Program     2794       106