Under the circumstances, the Ministry of Defense has decided that the university student intensive training system is of limited value to the country's efforts to streamline the military and raise its combat readiness. Thus it announced that after the winter session of 1999, it will terminate the Chengkungling intensive training course, ending this 40-year tradition.
在這種情況下，國防部評估現行大專生寒暑訓制度，對國家精實案的落實，兵源戰力的提昇，效果有限，於是對外宣佈民國八十八年寒訓結束後，即停辦成功嶺大專集訓，實施四十年的大專集訓成為絕響。