About Journal of Yunnan Police College

Journal of Yunnan Police College

Overview

The Journal of Yunnan Police College is a Chinese-language academic journal of Yunnan Police College in Kunming, Yunnan, China. Its Chinese title is Yunnan Jingguan Xueyuan Xuebao (云南警官学院学报). In older English-language citations the same title was also rendered as the Journal of the Yunnan Police Officer Academy, reflecting an earlier English rendering of the host institution's name. It is the scholarly journal of a provincial police academy — not a commercial magazine and not a general-interest publication — and its subject matter follows the mission of its host: criminology, drug-control and border-security studies, forensic and criminal science and technology, and research on public-security education.

That positioning matters for understanding the journal. Yunnan is a border province in southwestern China, and Kunming is its capital and largest city. A police college journal published there is not expected to mirror a metropolitan law review. Its verified record, in the citations that other scholars have made to it, is dominated by questions that arise directly from Yunnan's geography and policing responsibilities: how drugs enter China across its southwestern borders, how rehabilitation and prevention should be organised, how border officers should be trained, and how public-security teaching should respond to those realities.

Name, Language and Identity

The journal is published in Chinese, and readers outside China usually encounter it through citations in English-language work on drug control, rather than through an English edition. The bibliographic evidence illustrates that pattern. A study of a community-based heroin addiction treatment model, for example, cited Fang and colleagues, “Review of foreign drug rehabilitation model,” in the Journal of Yunnan Police Officer Academy in 2010, volume 1, pages 51–59. A University of Macau curriculum vitae listed Li and Ma, “Substance abuse, prevention and treatment in Macao,” in the same journal in 2015, pages 19–29, and an editorial by Li on substance-abuse research in the journal in 2015, page 1. Those citations confirm both the Chinese-language scholarly identity of the title and the English rendering under which it has long been cited abroad.

No ISSN was attested in the sources consulted for this profile, and no founding year, publication frequency or domestic Chinese CN number for the journal itself is stated here, because none of those details could be verified in the sources consulted. That restraint is deliberate. The journal's existence, its host and its subject record are verifiable; its registry identifiers, on the evidence available, are not, and they should not be invented to complete a catalogue entry.

The Host: Yunnan Police College

Yunnan Police College is a comprehensive, full-time, public police university in Kunming. It is jointly managed by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education and the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department, with the Public Security Department serving as the primary authority overseeing its operations. A profile of the college notes that it publicly publishes journals and a school newspaper, which places the Journal of Yunnan Police College in the college's own publishing activity.

The college's academic structure explains the journal's range. It has worked across five disciplines — law, science, engineering, management and education — with 15 undergraduate majors listed in a mid-2010s profile, including anti-drug studies, law, public security, investigation, border management, computer science and technology, criminal science and technology, traffic management engineering, public security information, economic crime investigation, public service management, social work, information security, police dog technology and physical education, alongside 14 other specialties including investigation, public security management and traffic management. Its teaching departments have included the School of Narcotics Control, the School of Anti-Terrorism, the School of Criminal Investigation, the School of Public Security Management, the School of Law, the School of Information Network Security and a Graduate Department, supported by nine party and government management institutions and six professional student management institutions.

History of the Host Institution

The college was founded in April 1950. Its earliest form was the Public Security School of the Public Security Department of the People's Liberation Army Kunming Military Control Commission. It then passed through a succession of forms whose names are recorded in its institutional history: the Public Security School of the Public Security Department of the Yunnan Provincial People's Government, the Yunnan Political and Legal Cadre School, the Yunnan Political College, the Yunnan Public Security School, the Yunnan People's Police School and the Yunnan Public Security College period. In 1958, according to another institutional history, it merged with the Yunnan Provincial Political Cadre School to form a larger institution.

The modern stages are dated more precisely. Secondary-school diploma education began in 1978, and junior-college degree education began in 1984. By 1980 the institution had been renamed the Yunnan Provincial Police School. In April 2003 it was upgraded to an undergraduate college — the step that created the modern Yunnan Police College as a degree-level institution. It passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching work in ordinary universities in 2011, obtained the qualification for enrolling students for a master's degree in police affairs in 2013, and obtained the qualification for enrolling foreign students in 2014. A later institutional profile also reports approval in 2022 to grant master's degrees in police studies. Whichever milestone is emphasised, the direction is the same: an institution that began as a public-security training school in 1950 became, over seven decades, an undergraduate and then postgraduate police university — and its journal belongs to that later, degree-level phase of scholarly publishing.

Why Yunnan Shapes the Journal's Agenda

Yunnan, in southwestern China, borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, and lies close to the Golden Triangle, the mountainous region where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet and which Britannica describes as long associated with illicit opium cultivation and trade. A United States Department of Justice research report on cross-border drug trafficking between Myanmar and China carried out fieldwork in Kunming and in remote border towns along the China–Myanmar border, and described Yunnan as the province in the southwest corner of China that borders Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Research on China's anti-drug policies has likewise described trafficking from the Golden Triangle into mainland China through Yunnan as a serious non-traditional security challenge, with Yunnan on the front line of China's anti-drug campaign.

The college reflects that front-line role institutionally. It has served as the Ministry of Public Security's anti-drug police training base, its science and technology information education training base and its police guarantee training base, as well as a Southeast Asian police training base, a national training base for county and city public security chiefs, and a Yunnan drug problem research base. It has also reported training more than 2,600 senior law-enforcement police officers in drug control, border management and traffic management from more than 40 countries in Asia, Europe and Africa, and maintaining friendly relations with institutions including the Royal Thai Police institution, the Cambodian Police Academy, the Lao People's Police Academy and the Myanmar Central Police Training Academy. A journal produced inside that institution can be expected to publish border and drug research not as an exotic specialism, but as core business.

Scope: Criminology, Drug Control, Border Security and Police Education

The journal's stated scope in the directory record is criminology, drug-control and border-security studies, forensic science and public-security education research. Each element maps onto a teaching or research unit of the host. Criminology and investigation map onto the School of Criminal Investigation; forensic and criminal science onto the Criminal Science and Technology Research Institute and the major in criminal science and technology; drug control onto the School of Narcotics Control and the Narcotics Control Research Institute; border security onto the border management major; and public-security education onto a college whose work combines academic education for students with in-service training for serving officers. The college also lists a Judicial Appraisal Center among its research institutions, three provincial or ministerial-level key laboratories, a provincial-level key discipline and a provincial-level key construction major.

The college describes its own model as an integrated “teaching, learning, training, and war” — in context, teaching, study, training and practical combat — talent training model, and it reports that, from the establishment of its Police Training Department in 2006 to August 2015, it had completed more than 300 in-service police training sessions for more than 40,000 people across the province. Research published in a college journal in that setting is therefore aimed at a dual audience: scholars studying policing, and practitioners whose training the college itself delivers.

Evidence From Citations: A Drug-Control Record in Particular

Because the journal is cited abroad mainly by drug researchers, its best-documented strand in English-language sources is drug control — and that strand is long. An Atlantis Press conference paper cited work in the journal as early as March 2000, on the practice and enlightenment of a drug-crimes campaign in Yongjian, in Weishan, Yunnan. For 2010, citations include Hu Xunmin's “Situational Analysis and Evaluation on China's Drug Control,” in issue number 3 of 2010, pages 13–14, quoted in a CNA Analysis & Solutions report on Chinese law-enforcement views of Afghan drugs; Fang and colleagues on foreign drug rehabilitation models in 2010; and January 2010 articles on major challenges in drug treatment after the implementation of the Anti-Drug Law and on drug prohibition and narcotics control abroad.

The record continues in the following decade. Dirk van der Kley's Lowy Institute analysis of China's foreign policy in Afghanistan cited Zhang Kun, “Countermeasures and Defence Against the International Trend of ‘Golden Crescent’ Drugs Infiltrating China,” in the journal, number 2, 2012, and noted Zhang's argument that China should push for cooperation between Urumqi and Kabul airports to curb point-to-point drug trafficking. In 2015 the journal published the Macao substance-abuse work by Li and Ma noted above. In 2021, later scholarship cited Wang Lige on new challenges for drug prevention education in colleges and universities in the post-epidemic era, in the journal in 2021, issue 3, and Mo Guanyao and Luo Tingyin, “Innovative Path Exploration of ‘Cultural Drug Prohibition’ — Taking Foshan Practice as an Example,” in the journal in 2021, issue 4, pages 14–18. Taken together, those citations do not prove a complete contents list, and this profile does not claim one. They do prove sustained publication, over more than two decades, on drug control, rehabilitation, prevention education and cross-border trafficking — exactly the specialism the host college is known for.

People, Campus and Scale

The scale figures available for the host are dated, and this profile presents them as such. As of August 2015, the college reported 477 faculty members, of whom 162 held senior or associate senior titles and 184 held master's or doctoral degrees. It covered an area of 1,382.16 acres, with a total construction area of more than 230,000 square metres, a collection of more than 1.02 million books including e-books, and 8,462 volumes of 708 types of periodicals, with more than 30 teaching laboratories. Another profile gives a campus figure of 1,226 acres and teaching and research equipment valued at more than 120 million yuan, and names campus areas including Yuan Mountain, He Mountain, Leopard Mountain and Long Mountain. The figures differ because they come from different profiles at different times; both are reported here with their sources' framing rather than merged into a single invented total.

The human record is also part of the journal's context. Over the first six decades since its establishment, the college reported training and delivering more than 80,000 specialised talents for public security and law departments in Yunnan and across 31 provinces, regions and municipalities, and it noted that most leading cadres of the province's 16 prefecture-level public security organs and its 129 county-level public security organs were its graduates or had received short-term training there. Its motto is given in one profile as “loyalty, responsibility, dedication.” A scholarly journal in such an institution serves a professional community that the institution itself largely trained.

Readership and Use

The natural readers of the Journal of Yunnan Police College are, first, Chinese scholars and postgraduate students in police science, criminology, drug control and public-security education; second, serving officers and trainers who use college research in in-service education; and third, outside researchers — as the citation record shows — who need Chinese law-enforcement perspectives on drug trafficking from the Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent, on rehabilitation models, and on prevention education, and who cite the journal in English even though they read it in Chinese. Kunming itself adds context for that readership: it is the capital and largest city of Yunnan, the province's political, economic, communications and cultural centre, nicknamed the City of Eternal Spring for its year-round mild climate, and it is the gateway through which most research on Yunnan's borders is organised.

For directory users, the practical guidance is to search for the journal under both its current English title, Journal of Yunnan Police College, and its older cited form, Journal of Yunnan Police Officer Academy, and under its Chinese title and pinyin, Yunnan Jingguan Xueyuan Xuebao. Articles located under the older English form are the same journal, not a separate title, on the evidence of the shared Chinese title given in the citations.

Identifiers, Website and Verification Notes

No official website for the journal was listed in the clean directory file used for this profile, and no ISSN was attested in the sources consulted. No founding year, frequency, editor, postal address or submission instructions for the journal are stated in this profile, because none could be verified from the sources consulted; researchers who need those details should verify them through the college or a Chinese periodicals registry rather than relying on an unverified listing. What is verified is the core record: a Chinese-language academic journal named Yunnan Jingguan Xueyuan Xuebao, published by Yunnan Police College in Kunming, Yunnan, China; a host founded in April 1950 and upgraded to an undergraduate college in April 2003; a scope centred on criminology, drug control, border security, forensic science and public-security education; and a cited publication record on drug control running from at least 2000 to 2021. On that verified record, the journal stands as the scholarly voice of Yunnan's provincial police academy — an institution whose research agenda is set, unusually and directly, by the borders it helps to police.