what do you want to know about PRC?

How about those forced military camps.This may be political bs,but bbc once showed how 10th grade students have to go through a force military training camp.The chinese goverment say they are doing this because the children arent as patriotic (or something like that) as before.This explanation on the other hand didnt impress me and i would like to know more about this issue.

I heard about it from press also, but I got no idea. The members who live in China now will answer it better. Most of my friends did not go to military camp, but since they all came from same area, I don't know about situation of others place.

Vytautas said:

How about those forced military camps.This may be political bs,but bbc once showed how 10th grade students have to go through a force military training camp.The chinese goverment say they are doing this because the children arent as patriotic (or something like that) as before.This explanation on the other hand didnt impress me and i would like to know more about this issue.

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yes, there are military camps and most (it's impossible to get everyone) of the gr.10s have to go. i didn't go because im in canada but my old friends went. and i've heard it's not all that bad. at least the one my friends went let them bring just about anything. so they brought 2 full bags of food each :roll: from their point of view, the camp is useless. they sing those old military songs, and had those physical trainings, etc. the best part was firing those 3 live ammunitions. ONLY 3!!! but then again, it got them out of school .

i think it's a 1 week thing.

Vytautas said:

How about those forced military camps.This may be political bs,but bbc once showed how 10th grade students have to go through a force military training camp.The chinese goverment say they are doing this because the children arent as patriotic (or something like that) as before.This explanation on the other hand didnt impress me and i would like to know more about this issue.

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Here's some articles from the People's Daily:




I was watching CCTV on cable recently and saw a segement on HS students paticipating in a week-long camp, sponsered by the school and military. The students were taught some basic skills like how to pitch a tent and cook their own meals. There were no weapons training and some of the kids looked miserable and complained about having to do their own laundry (by hand scrubbing) for the first time. Not sure if that was part of the supposed "military training".

T-U-P said:

yes, there are military camps and most (it's impossible to get everyone) of the gr.10s have to go. i didn't go because im in canada but my old friends went. and i've heard it's not all that bad. at least the one my friends went let them bring just about anything. so they brought 2 full bags of food each :roll: from their point of view, the camp is useless. they sing those old military songs, and had those physical trainings, etc. the best part was firing those 3 live ammunitions. ONLY 3!!! but then again, it got them out of school .

i think it's a 1 week thing.

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Is this waste of money? What is CCP trying to acheive? How widespread is it? Do it include both public and private high school?

firing those 3 live ammunitions. ONLY 3!!!

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From what i saw they also wake them up at night to teach them how to deploy a chair and sit.Imagine a company of teenagers standing up and sitting down time and time and time again.Well lets just say i dont understand what they are trying to archieve.

KYli said:

Is this waste of money? What is CCP trying to acheive? How widespread is it? Do it include both public and private high school?

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i think the main thing it's trying to achieve is to make the younger generations more independent and less dependent on their social status. a lot of the kids these days are pretty rich and waste money and don't do anything other than play computer games and watch tv, and eating of course. so i think the CCP is trying to get them more active or something along that line. i believe officially all public and private high schools have to participate.

T-U-P said:

i think the main thing it's trying to achieve is to make the younger generations more independent and less dependent on their social status. a lot of the kids these days are pretty rich and waste money and don't do anything other than play computer games and watch tv, and eating of course. so i think the CCP is trying to get them more active or something along that line. i believe officially all public and private high schools have to participate.

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If the main thing is trying to achieve to make Kids more mature and wise, that will be good idea. Nowaday, young teenagers just not as hard working as before. It is interesting that some of my friends did not go to military camp. Maybe since they have already graduate high school eight or nine years ago, the program is not as active as now.

most private school here in Australia have the option of doing a 6 month military camp if their participating in the school cadets.

6months! thats half of yr 10 wasted.
i think the main reason of getting teenagers to attend military camps is to maintain some sort of discipline. i remember when i was in primary school in Shanghai they made us march around the school quadrangle for an hr a day in formation

The 1 week course for younger people was introduced because of "the little emperor" syndrome, where the one child in the family is very spoilt. A lot of them were becoming selfish and because they were spoilt also lazy, the military camp was introduced to address that issue mainly- or so people say who I have asked.
I was also told that when people leave high school and go to university they need to do one month military training at the university. Most people I asked said it is a waste of time, just marching in the hot sun (September) for up to 7 hours a day. Someone said to me if they were going to join the military that is fine, but they were going to university. They also said it was cruel because some people were really unfit and this was not taken into account and many people simply collapsed in the first few days. It did not include any weapons training or similar. However it was a good ice breaker to start friendships at university.