Shouning County (;

Foochow Romanized Foochow Romanized, also known as Bàng-uâ-cê (BUC for short; ) or Hók-ciŭ-uâ Lò̤-mā-cê (), is a Latin alphabet for the Fuzhou dialect of Eastern Min adopted in the middle of the 19th century by Western missionaries. It had varied at dif ...

: Sêu-nìng-gâing) is a small county located in the northeast of Fujian province of People's Republic of China, bordering Zhejiang province to the northeast. It is under the jurisdiction of Ningde City, An Eastern Min dialect of

Min Chinese Min (; BUC: ''Mìng-ngṳ̄'') is a broad group of Sinitic languages spoken by about 30 million people in Fujian province as well as by the descendants of Min speaking colonists on Leizhou peninsula and Hainan, or assimilated natives of Chaoshan ...

(similar to the Fuzhou dialect) is spoken there. There are a number of

covered bridges A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered woo ...

located there, and of the 100 or so woven timber arch "lounge bridges" throughout China, Shouning County has 19. The county hosted the second international conference on Chinese covered bridges from September 20 to 23, 2007. Beilu opera (also called ''Luantan''), a variety of Min opera, is popular in Shouning County. The county spans an area of , and has a population of about 280,000 as of 2019.

History

Shouning County was first established in 1455, under the reign of the Jingtai Emperor of the Ming dynasty.

Administrative divisions

Shouning County comprises eight

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and six townships. These are then divided into 205 administrative villages.

Towns

The county's eight towns are , ,

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, , , , , and .

Townships

The county's six townships are , , , , , and .

Climate

Economy

As of 2019, Shouning County's gross domestic product totaled ¥10.06 billion, a 7.7% increase from 2018. Of this,

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and

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comprised ¥2.82 billion, up 4.2% from 2018. The county's retail sales in 2019 totaled ¥3.28 billion, up 11.5% from 2018. As of 2019, the county's urban residents experienced a per capita disposable income of ¥28,023, a 9.1% increase from 2018; the county's rural residents had a per capita disposable income of ¥15,359, up 10.2% from 2018.

Notable people

Feng Menglong, a famous Chinese writer, once served as the county magistrate of Shouning County.

In popular culture

The film "Love on the Covered Bridge" () was shot in Shouning County.

References

External links

Shouning County official site

Covered bridges of Shouning County
(PDF file)
Photo of covered bridge in Shouning CountyArticle about covered bridge symposium

Articles about covered bridges
County-level divisions of Fujian Ningde {{Fujian-geo-stub