i heard this from some of my chinese friends, they are forcred to do one year of internship before they graduate. it sounds really creepy to me.

This an excellent way to round out a student's education with a polytechnic hands on experience.

This is not uncommon in the USA either. It is called work experience.

yeah, my sister also encounter this problem, she majors in oral medicine and her school stipulated she and her classmates to attend one year's intership in a town hospital.
she wants to prepare for the entrance exam for postgraduate and take classes in the cram school in aother city, thus dilemma emerges.
finnaly, she escaped the internship.

I had a Chinese friend who majored in Mechanical Automation and he had a "internship" his last semester at school at a huge Chinese steel factory. But the factory was afraid they would mess something up so they just sent him and his classmates to a big room and told them to study some books. They also told them they could just go outside and play basketball.

My friend was upset, he wanted to learn something at the factory, but all he did was play basketball. The funny thing is that at the end the his university required all the students to write a review of their internship and everyone just made it up.

Most internships in China are just simply a way for the school to not provide lessons to fourth year students and still collect tuition. The saddest part is not that the students live in such a state of fear, it is that they do not say anything about it