In June 2016, according to Chinese business media, a video spread online showing employees of a rural commercial bank in Changzhi, Shanxi, being struck on the buttocks with a wooden board during a training course. According to reports, the group that ranked last was given this “corporal punishment.”
The provincial rural credit union ordered the trainer and his training company to apologize publicly. The course was stopped, and the bank’s chairman and a vice president were suspended.