Abstract: Implementation process and effect of the governance policies regarding after-school training institutions are of great significance towards bringing after-school training back to the public welfare sphere and reconstructing normal educational environment so as to accomplish the objectives of the double-reduction policy. An analysis of implementation of the governance policies regarding after-school training institutions in the context of the double-reduction policy based on the Smith's Policy Implementation Process Model has identified the following four problems facing implementation of aforesaid policies: limitation of the policies themselves, incompetence of the implementation authorities, cognitive bias about the targeted people, and inadequate policy support. To breakthrough the bottleneck impeding the implementation process of aforesaid policies, it is necessary that design of such policies be emphasized to enhance their implementation effect, competence of the implementing authorities be strengthened to improve the policy implementation mechanism, cognition about the targeted people be adjusted to reduce resistance to policy implementation, and implementation environment of such policies be improved to lay a better foundation for their implementation.

Key words: “double reduction” policy, Smith Model, after-school training institution, policy implementation