Yes Silver Star is Yin Xing. They are the same school.

I initially replied to a job advert on echinacities. The Foreign Affairs Officer replied that in the interim the leaders had decided this year to pass over the recruitment of foreign teachers to another company and that the contract if signed would be with them but the resident permit and all paperwork would be handled by the school.

The contract I received was from Buckland Group in Yongzhou who supply teachers to Shaanxi, Shanxi and a few other provinces.

The school is a private school made up of three individual schools, elementary, middle and high school. They have one foreign teacher for each school. Ideally I wanted to teach high school students, the FAO replied that they are not recruiting for a high school teacher this year and are only seeking an elementary and middle school oral english teachers but said it would be via an agency.

I did notice though that the salary and bonuses have been reduced compared to previous years.

Anyway I have decided to look elsewhere, it was the direct hire and relatively high holiday pay and bonuses that attracted me in the first place.