This is common practice also in China, it's just more convenient with scheduling and women are being brainwashed about delivery being some crazy painful thing Asians can't handle. I was surprised they didn't try to push my wife into C-section, maybe it played a role it was rather small provincial hospital where her family knew doctors instead of Beijing factory lines, which we visited only in beginning of pregnancy and you really felt like in factory over there with each door performing only small part of examination (while all of this was performed by one doctor in one practice in Europe with 2nd pregnancy).