what do you want to know about PRC?

u guys got some of the reasons..
one other major reason for the whole military training is from recuitment. since most university kids have never been exposed to how the military works, they don't usually consider the military as an option once they can get in a university. but once they have been exposed to it for a month in university, some of them really likes it and may decide to enlist or go to a military academy after they graduate, and the PLA really need talented people with a university degree.

one of my cousins enlisted with 2 of his friends after university, but then again, his parents are officers and grandfather was a red army vet. but his friends he meet in university don't have anyone that was military, and really like the whole discipline they got in the first month and enlisted.

there's also a bit of the "people's war" mentality in this too. due to this, the government at least know that people that have gone to high school knows how to shoot a gun, sure they can't be very effecient at killing anything, but give one million people guns, they're gonna end up killing smething.

i am so sorry that i didn't post any reply in past few days! i was too busy working on my coursework!

i am grateful that this thread was answered by many members. and thks a lot! i will try to come back to the forum ASAP. and i will always follow this topic.

limited by my english level,i can't express my idea exactly.but will always follow this topic.

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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I'm not sure about national service. It's useful and probably necessary in small countries like Switzerland, as they can't afford a large standing army. But in contrast somewhere like China should be the last place to need it for a military reason, especially as it is not "real" national service - isn't it a matter of weeks, or something? Sigma that is an interesting idea - I'm sure it could also be a leftover from that era. Not of course that it would be terribly useful.

It's so short I don't think that it really makes kids less selfish. So it probably is about an attempt to make the children more "patriotic" and loyal to the Party. Not that it probably works as the old men hope it would, but the government still thinks it's worth it. So really it is a bit of a waste of time - having a mandatory course that focused on something like first-aid would be much more useful.

I have chinese friend that been to the military camp in china.

one day we were talking about it he said all they do is learn how to march...
march and march all day long. then at night they have to do post.

but the most interest thing is he say they teach them to resembel a AK blind folded!

I think it is a good thing to teach some spoiled kid how to behave, because he say before the training he was god in his family! now the platoon officer in the camp tuned him up pretty bad. after that he got alot better grade and came to TX Now he is nicer to his parents when I went to his house.

If a topic is too long, the people do not have the patience completely to look.this topic is very good.
Hoped more people pay attention to it.The Chinese civilization is longinquity very much, has very many foreign friends to want to know.

but the most interest thing is he say they teach them to resembel a AK blind folded!

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Well we had to do that also. I think it's standart training method in all armyes. Its purpose is to teach soldiers to be familiar with their weapon and able to overhaul it in any conditions, night or day....
....anyway I managed to dismantle and put it back together in 45 secconds blind folded (about 25 secconds for eyes open)

what military where you in though, Gollevainen? Finland?

Gollevainen said:

Well we had to do that also. I think it's standart training method in all armyes. Its purpose is to teach soldiers to be familiar with their weapon and able to overhaul it in any conditions, night or day....
....anyway I managed to dismantle and put it back together in 45 secconds blind folded (about 25 secconds for eyes open)

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you had to do it because you were in the Finish army (artillery corp if i remember correctly), but those kids had to do it in a one week military camp. they're not even a part of the army. there's a difference. just wondering, how fast can a professional soldier (experienced, not new recruits) reload an ak?

Well the dismantle/remantle thing was one of the first things to do, and actually a good training for guys going to serve just very short periods of times. It makes you feel confidence about your own weaponry, get to know it well and thrust that if it jams, (Aks never do, in my servicetime i never heard about any rifles that had been jammed) you know what to do.