Ninghua (Chinese: 宁化县) is a county in Sanming municipality (or Prefecture-level city) in Fujian province, China.
Ninghua is located at the west of Sanming, next to Jiangxi Province. Shibi of Ninghua is well known as the Cradle of the Hakka. Ninghua is also marked as the starting place of the famous massive Long March undertaken by the Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party in 1934.
Area: 2381 km2.
Population: 340,000.
Postal Code: 365400.
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 （石壁镇）. All four lie along a single east-west highway which transects Ninghua and connects the Mingxi County with National Highway 206 in Jiangxi 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.
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