article_snippet.sent: In rural ChinaChina, hiring exotic dancers to perform at wakes is an increasingly common practice, but is now the latest focus of the country's crackdown on vicethe country's crackdown on vice.
article_snippet.sent: China's Ministry of Culture issued a statement Thursday announcing a crackdown on these funeral stripteases.
article_snippet.sent: China's Ministry of Culture said that China's Ministry of Culture had investigated two separate incidents, one in Handan City, Hebei Province, and the other in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province.
article_snippet.sent: China's Ministry of Culture's report said that stripteases undermined "the cultural value of the entertainment business," and asserted that "such acts were uncivilized.
article_snippet.sent: Exotic dancing and other forms of pornography are illegal in China.
article_snippet.sent: China's Ministry of Culture did not respond to CNN requests for comment.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, China's Ministry of Culture ordered police across China to step up efforts to tackle the "three vices" -- prostitution, gambling and drug trafficking -- warning officials gambling and drug trafficking would be held accountable for illegal activities.
article_snippet.sent: In February 2014, a massive crackdown on prostitution in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan, dubbed "Sin City" for China's Ministry of Culture huge vice industry, raided 2,000 establishments and detained more than 900 people.
highlights_snippet.sent: Funeral strippers in rural China are the latest focus of China's crackdown on vice .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Government report says that stripteases undermine "the cultural value of the entertainment business" 