Minning, Ningxia

Coordinates: 38°14′40″N 105°58′18″E / 38.24444°N 105.97167°E / 38.24444; 105.97167
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Minning
闽宁镇‎
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Minning (

town under the administration of Yongning County, Ningxia, China.[1] As of 2021, it administers Funing Community (福宁社区) and the following six villages:[2]

  • Funing Village (福宁村)
  • Mulan Village (木兰村)
  • Wuhe Village (武河村)
  • Yuanyi Village (园艺村)
  • Yuhai Village (玉海村)
  • Yuanlong Village (原隆村)

Minning, which literally means "Fujian–Ningxia", was named by Xi Jinping in 1997, then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee and the leader of the Fujian-Ningxia poverty-alleviation leading group. The town was officially established in 2001 after its population swelled to 14,000.[3] Most of its residents are resettled farmers from Xihaigu in southern Ningxia, one of the poorest places in China and a main target of the government's poverty-alleviation resettlement program.[4]

The 2021 TV series Minning Town is based on the history of this town. Starring

You Yongzhi, Yao Chen, Huang Jue, Tao Hong, Yan Ni with Wang Kai and Bai Yu, the show was a huge critical success and described as "a new standard for Chinese dramas".[5] It won Best Television Series and three other awards at the 2021 Shanghai Television Festival.[6]

NCPA commissioned an opera of the same name premiered September 2022.[7]

References

  1. ^ 2021年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：永宁县 (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  2. ^ 2021年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：闽宁镇 (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  3. ^ Hu Dongmei; Zhang Xiaomin (27 July 2018). "Minning town, a model for poverty-alleviation work". China Daily. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
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  5. ^ Davis, Kenrick (26 January 2021). "A Show About Poverty Alleviation Is Getting Historically High Reviews". Sixth Tone. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Minning Town won the title of the "Best Chinese TV Series", Yu Hewei and Tong Yao won the Best Actor and Actress Awards respectively". Shanghai Television Festival. 11 June 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Minning Town - NCPA CHINA".
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