The Yellow River is surging and towering, and Ningxia, known as the "Jiangnan on the Great Wall" since ancient times, has always been an active frontier for communication, exchange, and integration among various ethnic groups due to its location at the intersection of grassland agriculture. A long history of Ningxia is a blending history of various ethnic groups' joint development and construction, moving from diversity to unity. In June of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the requirement of striving to create a demonstration zone for strengthening the sense of community of the Chinese nation in Ningxia during his inspection. Keeping in mind the instructions, Ningxia fully implements General Secretary Xi Jinping's important ideas on strengthening and improving ethnic work, and creates a harmonious development pattern of communication, exchange, and integration among all ethnic groups. "The Chinese nation is one family, working together to build the Chinese Dream" has become the common voice of more than 7.2 million people of all ethnic groups on the border. Working together for prosperity - mutual promotion and interaction between ethnic unity and high-quality development. "In the past, we ate potatoes to make a living, but now we grow potatoes to get rich. Early maturing potatoes have become our 'golden nugget', selling for 5 yuan per kilogram. I can earn more than 50000 yuan a year just by planting them," said Su Faqiang, a villager from Malian Village, Malian Township, Xiji County. "Potatoes have become a 'golden nugget', and it is inseparable from the Han Chinese people forming economic cooperatives as one family to develop together. In 2022, Malian Village established an economic cooperative, with two-thirds of the more than 300 households being ethnic minorities. Various ethnic groups unite closely and leverage their respective advantages, relying on the mechanism of "order production, base construction, mutual benefit and win-win", to develop local traditional potato cultivation into a characteristic advantage industry of "cold vegetables". Farming together, as close as brothers. Apart from food, there's no distinction between you and me. This is an important tool for poverty alleviation and wealth creation in the Xihai Gu region Bai Xuegui, Deputy Secretary of Guyuan Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of Xiji County Committee, said. National unity brings silver and real gold. In recent years, the wallets of the people in Xihai Gu, who used to suffer the most, have been getting fuller day by day. The annual per capita disposable income of rural residents in Ningxia increased from 6776 yuan in 2012 to 17772 yuan in 2023. In addition to mutual support and common development among local people, the poverty alleviation and prosperity of all ethnic groups in Ningxia cannot be achieved without the deep love between mountains and seas from thousands of miles away. Under the mechanism of coordinated cooperation between the eastern and western regions, Fujian Province has been generously and selflessly assisting Ningxia for 28 years. At present, the human resources and social security departments of Fujian and Ningxia have organized a total of 330000 rural laborers from Ningxia to work in Fujian; Fujian has over 6000 enterprises in Ningbo, employing more than 200000 people; More than 200 Fujian aid officials in Ningxia, thousands of medical, educational, and agricultural support personnel, and tens of thousands of Fujian merchants relay assistance. Batch after batch of Ningxia people have gone to the coastal areas to work and increase their income, broadening their horizons. Batch after batch of Fujian cadres and experts have rooted themselves in poverty alleviation and development in Ningxia. This not only reflects the superiority of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, but also highlights the "diversity and unity" of the Chinese nation, with a shared destiny. Collaboration originates from unity, and collaboration forges greater unity. Ningxia, relying on the business card of ethnic unity, has attracted people of all ethnic groups from all over the country to work and live here. In the vegetable production base located in Qingtongxia City, there are Miao, Yi, and Buyi ethnic groups from Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan working here. Wuzhong City has introduced a package of "assistance measures". In Guanghui Village, Qujing Town, Qingtongxia City, a "Home in Another Place" service station has been established to provide one-stop services such as housing, medical care, and education for migrant workers of all ethnic groups. The reporter met Yang Wengao, a Miao migrant worker, at the "Home in Another Land" service station. She was teaching her eldest daughter how to make Miao embroidery during the off-season. The government has helped us solve the problem of our children's education and thoughtfully organized folk cultural activities, allowing us to feel the warmth of home. I hope to take my children to settle here, "said Yang Wengao. In the same village and community, embracing each other like pomegranate seeds and embedding ethnic dances, square dances, and fan dances into each other, the residents enjoying the cool breeze under the flower rack corridor chat and laugh, and children play and frolic on the flat and wide greenway... At dusk in early autumn, the small square in front of the New Era Civilization Practice Station in Changcheng Garden Community, Jinfeng District, Yinchuan City, Ningxia is bustling with activity. "Whether it's Loong Boat Festival or Gurbang Festival, residents in our community will gather together to celebrate together. Everyone brings their own unique cuisine, chatting, singing, and dancing together, enjoying themselves like a family Su Fang, a Hui resident of Changcheng Garden Community, said. The Great Wall Garden Community, with over 10000 residents, is a typical multi-ethnic community where ethnic minorities make up 38%. Our community's various ethnic groups are not as close as relatives, "said Zhao Naixiang, the secretary of the community party committee and director of the neighborhood committee. From the early construction of the Third Front, to the later migration of Diaozhuang, ecological migration, and labor migration, the trend of population mobility in Ningxia has created a "six co" pattern of various ethnic groups living and learning together, co building and sharing, and working together and enjoying together. Nowadays, it has become the norm for people of all ethnic groups in Ningxia to share units with their communities, groups with their villages, and teams with their workshops. Various types of schools have merged to study and live together, and mixed classes and dormitories have formed a good atmosphere for learning, living, and growing together. The interlocking living environment that breaks physical isolation naturally nurtures strong emotions. 'Recognizing kinship' has become a unique phenomenon of ethnic communication in the land of Serbia. Ma Guodong, the director of the village committee of He Run Village in Huangduobao Town, Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City, said, "We usually take care of each other during holidays and festivals, and we get to know each other during red and white celebrations." Their village is a typical mixed village of Hui and Han people, and as a Hui ethnic group, he got married to a Han ethnic group. Interembedding and cohabitation have formed a deep level of bloodline integration. Li Bo, a Hui ethnic villager from Zhangjiayuan Township, Tongxin County, Wuzhong City, married a Han Chinese daughter-in-law and their family lives happily ever after. With the continuous deepening of communication, exchange, and integration, in recent years, more than 2000 couples of different ethnic groups in Ningxia have formed good relationships every year, vividly 'interpreting' the tight embrace like pomegranate seeds The head of the Autonomous Region Ethnic Affairs Commission said. Breathing together, sharing destiny - people's hearts gather, spirits depend on each other to build a shared spiritual home. The Ningxia Museum during the summer is bustling with activity. Tourists from all over the country can experience the genes and bloodline of the Chinese national community carried by historical and cultural heritage in each cultural relic. The Xixia porcelain unearthed from the "2022 Chinese Archaeological Discovery" Suyukou porcelain kiln site in Helan Mountain has a solid white body and a warm white glaze. The firing process combines the essence of the northern and southern kilns in the Song Dynasty, which is amazing. The Suyukou porcelain kiln site reflects the characteristics of ethnic communication during the Song Dynasty, confirming the integration of border, agricultural, and grassland cultures in the Hetao region, and demonstrating the process of diversified and integrated development of the Chinese nation Zhu Cunshi, the project leader of the archaeological excavation of the Suyukou porcelain kiln site in Helan Mountain, said. The construction of a shared spiritual home also requires practical action. This Qingming Festival, more than 2000 teachers and students from various ethnic groups from Guyuan No.2 Middle School and Hongwen Middle School set off at 5am and walked 108 miles to sweep the graves of revolutionary martyrs who liberated Ningxia. They were praised by netizens as the "walking ideological and political class". This hiking tradition has been upheld by the school for nearly 30 years. The school insists on holding an annual hiking festival to honor the martyrs, with the aim of allowing young people to experience the hardships of the Long March, the fearlessness of heroes, and the strength of the Chinese nation, to build a solid foundation of faith, and to cultivate patriotism Principal Ren Hao of Hongwen Middle School said. In addition, Ningxia relies on cultural centers and stations at all levels, revolutionary sites, natural and cultural landscapes, ethnic festivals and other activities to carry out mass propaganda and preaching. For six consecutive years, it has carried out more than 7000 large-scale preaching sessions on Marxist ethnic and religious views, and organized diverse and rich content "National Unity and Progress Month" activities for 40 consecutive years to enhance cultural identity among all ethnic groups in the spring breeze and rain. The upcoming September will be the 41st National Unity and Progress Month in Ningxia. Baijia Banquet, Neighborhood Festival, Lecture Hall... Various regions in Ningxia are preparing for exciting and diverse National Unity and Progress Month activities. Through this tangible and effective activity, children of all ethnic groups can embed the sense of community of the Chinese nation into their hearts, blood, and souls. (New Society)