Dunno, one of the top 5 european airlines and our OPS-manual actually urges us to hand fly wherever possible to keep our skills up. But then, we are allowed to hand fly RNAV departures and arrivals, are allowed to hand fly CAT II approaches although of course we have to do autolands in CAT IIIa/b cases.
Personally i like to hand fly below FL100, but sometimes up to cruising altitude, doing raw data approaches or simulated raw data ones (NPAs with boeings IAN technology) whenever i feel like it and the captain is comfortable with (some do not like the FO hand flying, sadly).
FOQA is a given nowadays, however that the question is not if it is there, but how the data is used. Seems from your post china still takes the stone-age approach of using it as a personal prosecution tool instead of a modern SMS.
I do agree however that renting a nice acro plane for personal pleasure beats flying the boeing hands down, however over here prices are quite prohibitive for private flying as you won't find a good plane for less than around 200€ an hour.