China marked last Friday's National Security Education Day with a poster warning female government workers about dating handsome foreigners, who could turn out to have secret agendas.

Titled "Dangerous Love," the 16-panel, comic book-like poster tells the story of an attractive young Chinese civil servant nicknamed Xiao Li, or Little Li, who meets a foreigner at a dinner party and starts a relationship.

The man, David, claims to be a student, but he's actually a foreign spy who butters Xiao Li up with compliments on her beauty, flowers, fancy dinners and romantic walks in the park.

After Xiao Li provides David with internal documents from her job at a government propaganda office, the two are arrested. In one of the poster's final panels, Xiao Li is shown sitting handcuffed before two policemen, who tell her she has a "shallow understanding of secrecy for a state employee."

The poster has appeared on local governments' public bulletin boards, targeting mainly rank-and-file state employees.

A Beijing district government said in a statement that it would display the poster to educate its employees about keeping classified information confidential and reporting to state security agencies if they spot any spying activity. It said it would familiarize employees with ways to counter espionage.

National Security Education Day aims to educate people about security in China.

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