Minning () is a

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under the administration of

Yongning County Yongning County (, Xiao'erjing: يٌ‌نِئٍ ثِيًا) is a county of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, bordering Inner Mongolia to the west. ...

Ningxia Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1 ...

, China. , it administers Funing Community () and the following six villages: *Funing Village () *Mulan Village () *Wuhe Village () *Yuanyi Village () *Yuhai Village () *Yuanlong Village () Minning, which literally means "

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–Ningxia", was named by

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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. Most of its residents are resettled farmers from

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in southern Ningxia, one of the poorest places in China and a main target of the government's poverty-alleviation resettlement program. The 2021 TV series ''Minning Town'' is based on the history of this town. Starring

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, Zhang Jiayi, Huang Yao, Bai Yufan, Guo Jingfei, You Yongzhi,

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, 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". It won Best Television Series and three other awards at the 2021 Shanghai Television Festival. NCPA commissioned an opera of the same name premiered September 2022.

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