Patrolling for peace in UN buffer zone By YANG ZEKUN | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-21 10:02 Share CLOSE Lan Chao at the Ledra UN police station in sector two of the UN's Cyprus mission area. [Photo provided to China Daily] Chinese police officer faces challenges ranging from grenades to threat of COVID-19 infection in Cyprus While his family and friends in China were celebrating New Year's Day, peacekeeper Lan Chao was informed by the UN military in Nicosia, Cyprus, that they had found a grenade in the buffer zone he works in. Although the 39-year-old has dealt with many incidents in the United Nations' mission area since 2019, the grenade incident still gives him the shivers.