Why skipping ropes are so expensive in China

Skipping rope is a big deal in China. Children must be good at it to become eligible for scholarships. Most provinces include skipping tests (measuring skips per minute) in their versions of the high-school entrance exam, known as the In the south-western province of Yunnan, for example, elite skippers can score 11 points on the exam, where the maximum total is 700.That may not sound like much, but the difference of a single point on the can decide whether or not a child goes to a good school, setting them up for university. So on weekends parents often bring their children to parks for drills. An app that lets pupils compare skipping scores has over 10m users.