This makes more sense to me. It's very cheap to enforce too.

After having been in China for a while, I realize policies there, when enforced, often don't directly target the population. Instead, they always target organisations and businesses. And let them shape the ecosystems people are in.

This is a more efficient way of eroding the (economic and political) power of the masses.

Meanwhile, the affluent and well-connected would always find a way out, either to study in Singapore or attend Harvard.