46 minSeason 1 • Episode 23
LatestIt tells the story of villagers from Ningxia who migrated and built Minning Town from scratch. The government wants to build the rural housing land and encourages the farmers of Xiji Country to migrate or relocate. However, the conditions of the desert are too harsh. The villagers who moved there mostly left the second day. Ma Defu tries his best to get the villagers to stay and build the Minning Town. In 1996, the Party Central Committee made a strategic plan to promote counterpart cooperation between the East and the West, which identified Fujian counterparts to promote poverty alleviation work in Ningxia. As time passes, Minning Town was given a new lease of life.
Acting
Huang Xuan's exhausted optimism will wreck you in the best way.
Production
They built actual desert sets—every grain of sand feels earned.
Writing
Bureaucracy made genuinely compelling? Witchcraft.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real 'Fujian-Ningxia cooperation,' a rare state-sanctioned poverty program that actually succeeded—making this China's most optimistic prestige drama.
Director Kong Sheng previously made 'All Is Well' and 'The Disguiser'—this was his first rural epic, shot during actual sandstorms.
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