Originally published at: Drones, Chili Peppers, and Negotiations: A Day with a Female Village Official in China - China Comes
What does it really mean to run a Chinese village in the 2020s? Follow Zhang Cui, a female Party secretary in rural Yunnan, for one day: she launches drones over chili fields, negotiates with wholesale buyers, and settles land disputes with satellite images. This is rural governance as it looks today—and women like her are changing its face.