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SEC Comment Letter for Ambow Education Holding (AMBO) — Sep 30, 2022

Ambow Education Holding Ltd.
Date: Sept. 30, 2022 · CIK: 0001494558 · Accession: 0000000000-22-010812

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File numbers found in text: 333-264878

Date
September 30, 2022
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Form
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Company
Ambow Education Holding Ltd.

Letter

United States securities and exchange commission logo September 30, 2022 Kia Jing Tan Chief Financial Officer Ambow Education Holding Ltd. 12th Floor, Tower 1, Financial Street, Chang’an Center, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100043 People’s Republic of China Re:Ambow Education Holding Ltd. Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form F-3 Filed September 14, 2022 File No. 333-264878 Dear Mr. Tan: We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Unless we note otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our August 30, 2022 letter. Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form F-3 filed September 14, 2022 Prospectus Summary Permissions Required from the PRC Authorities for Our Operations and Listing, page 5 1.We note your response to comment 3 and reissue. Please revise your disclosure to explain whether you and all of your PRC subsidiaries and the consolidated VIEs believe that you are required to obtain any permissions or approvals even though you state that none of these entities have “received any disapprovals or denies from any PRC regulatory authorities.” In this regard, we note that your current disclosure that you believe you are not required to obtain approvals pertains only to approvals from the CSRC and/or the

FirstName LastNameKia Jing Tan Comapany NameAmbow Education Holding Ltd. September 30, 2022 Page 2 FirstName LastName Kia Jing Tan Ambow Education Holding Ltd. September 30, 2022 Page 2 CAC. The disclosure here should not be qualified by materiality. Please make consistent revisions where you discuss permissions and approvals throughout the document. Additionally, please revise this section to state the basis for your conclusions regarding whether approvals are required. Please contact Jennie Beysolow at 202-551-8108 or Mara Ransom at 202-551-3264 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Trade & Services cc: Tahra Wright, Esq.

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United States securities and exchange commission logo
September 30, 2022
Kia Jing Tan
Chief Financial Officer
Ambow Education Holding Ltd.
12th Floor, Tower 1, Financial Street,
Chang’an Center,
Shijingshan District, Beijing 100043
People’s Republic of China
Re:Ambow Education Holding Ltd.
Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form F-3
Filed September 14, 2022
File No. 333-264878
Dear Mr. Tan:
            We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments.  In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we
may better understand your disclosure.
            Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information.  If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
            After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments.  Unless we note
otherwise, our references to prior comments are to comments in our August 30, 2022 letter.
Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form F-3 filed September 14, 2022
Prospectus Summary
Permissions Required from the PRC Authorities for Our Operations and Listing, page 5
1.We note your response to comment 3 and reissue. Please revise your disclosure to explain
whether you and all of your PRC subsidiaries and the consolidated VIEs believe that you
are required to obtain any permissions or approvals even though you state that none of
these entities have “received any disapprovals or denies from any PRC regulatory
authorities.” In this regard, we note that your current disclosure that you believe you are
not required to obtain approvals pertains only to approvals from the CSRC and/or the

 FirstName LastNameKia Jing Tan
 Comapany NameAmbow Education Holding Ltd.
 September 30, 2022 Page 2
 FirstName LastName
Kia Jing Tan
Ambow Education Holding Ltd.
September 30, 2022
Page 2
CAC. The disclosure here should not be qualified by materiality. Please make consistent
revisions where you discuss permissions and approvals throughout the document.
Additionally, please revise this section to state the basis for your conclusions regarding
whether approvals are required.
            Please contact Jennie Beysolow at 202-551-8108 or Mara Ransom at 202-551-3264 with
any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Trade & Services
cc:       Tahra Wright, Esq.