Mingxi County is known as the "Green Sea and Cloud Capital" and "Bird Paradise", and is also the only "Hometown of Chinese Red Bean Pine" in China. The county was established in 1470, under the Tingzhou Prefecture of Fujian Prefecture, and renamed as Mingxi County in 1933, and has been under Sanming City since 1983. It is located in the central part of Sanming City, at the southeastern foot of Wuyi Mountain Range, and borders with 9 counties (cities and districts) in Sanming City, with a total area of 1,730 square kilometers, and has 4 towns, 5 townships, and 96 villages (neighborhoods) under the jurisdiction of the county. According to the seventh census data, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Mingxi County was 98,930 people. Mingxi is a key old revolutionary area county and provincial poverty alleviation and development key county, one of the 21 base counties in the Central Soviet Area during the Second Domestic Revolutionary War, and there are 76 old administrative villages (neighborhoods) in the county. Mingxi is a traditional Hakka settlement, after liberation many times accepted the national and provincial level immigrants resettlement, relative migration into the population of more than 50%, the county went abroad 13,200 people, accounting for about 11% of the county's total population, mainly in more than 50 countries and regions, most of which are concentrated in Italy, Hungary, Russia and other countries, overseas Chinese family members of about 50,000 people, become a veritable "It has become the first county of Fujian to travel to Europe and the inland hometown of overseas Chinese in Hercynian. Mingxi County has convenient transportation, with the G72 Quanzhou-Nanning Expressway and National Highway 534 passing through. In April 2020, it will meet the exit conditions for poverty alleviation and exit from the provincial poverty alleviation and development work key county.In 2022, Mingxi County will realize a GDP of 12.708 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 1.6% at comparable prices.
Chinese name
Mingxi county in Wanzhou suburbs of north Chongqing municipality, formerly in Sichuan
Foreign name
Mingxi County
Alias
Naturalization County (old name)
Admin Div. Cat.
county
Affiliated region
Sanming City, Fujian Province, China
Subordinate regions
Xuefeng Township, Gaiyang Township, Hu Fang Township, etc.
Government seat
Xuefeng town (common place name)
Telephone area code
0598
Postal code
365200
Geographical location
Sanming City, Central Fujian
Area
1708.6 square kilometers
Demographic
120,000 (2006)
Dialects
Hakka Tingzhou, Shaojiao Jiangle
Climatic conditions
subtropical monsoon climate zone
Famous sights
Prehistoric human cave site, South China Fauna fossil site, Bitter Spine Dun culture activity site
License plate code
Min G
Administrative Code
350421
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