Ninghua is a county in Sanming

Sanming

Sanming ) is a prefecture-level city in western Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders Nanping City to the north, Fuzhou City to the east, Quanzhou City to the southeast, Longyan City to the south, and the province of Jiangxi to the west...

 municipality (or Prefecture-level city

Prefecture-level city

A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

) in Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

 province, China.

Ninghua is located at the west of Sanming

Sanming

Sanming ) is a prefecture-level city in western Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It borders Nanping City to the north, Fuzhou City to the east, Quanzhou City to the southeast, Longyan City to the south, and the province of Jiangxi to the west...

, next to Jiangxi Province. Shibi

Shibi Town

Shibi , literally Stone Wall, is one of four towns in Ninghua County, Fujian province, China.-History:Shibi bills itself as the Cradle of the Hakkas for its place in Hakka history.-Republic of China:...

 of Ninghua is well known as the Cradle of the Hakka

Hakka

The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China....

. Ninghua is also marked as the starting place of the famous massive Long March

Long March

The Long March was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army. There was not one Long March, but a series of marches, as various Communist armies in the south...

 undertaken by the Red Army

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 of the Chinese Communist Party in 1934.

Area: 2381 km².

Population: 340,000.

Postal Code: 365400.

Administration

The county government is located in Cuijiang town (翠江镇). There are three other towns, namely Quanshang (泉上镇), Hucun （胡村） and Shibi

Shibi Town

Shibi , literally Stone Wall, is one of four towns in Ninghua County, Fujian province, China.-History:Shibi bills itself as the Cradle of the Hakkas for its place in Hakka history.-Republic of China:...

 （石壁镇）. All four lie along a single east-west highway which transects Ninghua and connects the Mingxi County

Mingxi County

Mingxi County is a county in Sanming City, Fujian, China.Area: 1709 km2.Population: 110,000.Postal Code: 365200.The county government is located in Xuefeng town.-External links:*...

 with National Highway 206

China National Highways

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 in Jiangxi

Jiangxi

' is a southern province in the People's Republic of China. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze River in the north into hillier areas in the south, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to...

Province.

There are twelve sub-townships, making a total of 16 township-level divisions in Ninghua:
Chengjiao (adjoining Cuijiang, the county seat), Anyuan, Shuixi, Helong, Zhongsha, Jicun, Huaitu, Fangtian, Zhiping, Caofang, Anle and Chengnan.