This analysis of the important industry-centered spare time school system in Communist China is a substantially revised version of a paper originally prepared for oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in March 1963. The author is specializing in the study of Communist China at Cornell University, where he is completing a doctoral program. In the absence of impartial firsthand observations by qualified outside observers of the arrangements for spare-time study under the present regime, the author has of necessity been forced to rely mainly upon a discriminating use of materials published in Communist China. While the reliability of these materials is not subject to independent verification, the body of data contained therein is generally believed to be sufficiently indicative of the prevailing situation on the Chinese mainland to enable qualified researchers to derive from it an informative basic picture of major developments. (Contains 64 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]