NPC & CPPCC Misc 1: college with 1-yr military training?

http://news.163.com/09/0308/05/53S3GJIE000136K8.html

Expand college education to five years with one-year military training at the beginning?

Some really reactionary ideas raised in CPPCC annual assembly.

The claimed benefits include:
good means of quality education (as opposed to "exam-oriented education");
good platform of more the needed patriotism and collectivism education to younger generation;
lower "employment pressure".

It really recalls me of the notorious "Peking University military training". After Tian Anmen Massacre 1989, a one-year military training before the real college education (as a means of "thought reconstruction",) was imposed on the incoming classes (Class of 1989, 1990 and 1991) of Peking University. The applicants pool of PKU noticeably worsened as a result, forcing the abandonment of the policy years later.

This is an absurd claim that will never ever be implemented. But you can imagine schools in HK, Singapore, UK and even US might welcome it.