‘You are a hero’: Yunnan’s sole female anti-drug chief champions women in drug war

An anti-narcotics police officer in China who has been working on the frontline without obscuring her identity for the past nine years, incurring more than 10 injuries, has won massive admiration from the mainland public. Li Xiangli is the only female police station chief in Yunnan province, located in the southwestern part of the country. She and her 47 colleagues are stationed at a checkpoint in Yongren county on the border between Yunnan and Sichuan province, where their main duty is to...

By Alice Yan