Know your facts and don't believe everything you read! It's obvious you have never stepped foot in China. Like most proverbial  news information, people, like yourself will embellish the truth to to fit their world or argument and not stay the course and on track. The original news article had to do with mushing and not China, but to answer your question from someone who has been to many provinces around China, only a couple of the many provinces in very small corners of China still practice this barbaric act, but even one act is too many. China has and is changing very rapidly while America is the one country that has been proven over the last year how little we have come in terms of race, sexism, and treating people with dignity . See, now I too got off track. I apologize !