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 Inner Mon ...

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. , 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. It depicts poverty alleviation efforts. Starring

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, Huang Yao,

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. It is one of the

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shows most popular with foreign audiences, particularly in the Arab countries. NCPA commissioned an opera of the same name premiered September 2022.

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