Kunming kidnapping: Display of bravery and calmness By Zhang Wenfang | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-24 14:21 Share CLOSE A journalist in blue jacket tries to give a soft drink to the hostage and the hostage-taker, in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, on Jan 23, 2021. [Photo by Xiong Qiang/The Paper] Kidnapping usually causes horror and panic. But a hostage rescue on Friday in Southwest China's Yunnan province caught online attention mostly because its unwrapping details touched millions' hearts. Footage widely circulated on Chinese social media shows a female in a blue jacket approaching the hostage-taker and apparently talking to him before he's shot dead. The woman was not a hostage negotiator as many assumed, but a reporter with Yunnan Media Group.