The case of the Ningxia Zhongning Battlefield Farmers’ Chorus was selected as a national grassroots ideological and political work innovation case

China News Service, Zhongning, Ningxia, November 12 (Reporter Yu Jing) On the 12th, the reporter learned from Zhongning County, Zhongwei City, Ningxia, that the case of "Literary and Beautiful Rural Singing Casts Soul and Educates People" created by the Farmers' Choir of Dajiangzhang Town, Zhongning County was successfully selected as the 2026 National Grassroots Ideological and Political Work Innovation Case. This is also the only case in Ningxia that was selected this time.

This collection and selection activity was organized by the China Political Research Association. After three rounds of rigorous selection, a total of 10 "top ten" cases and 75 innovative cases of grassroots ideological and political work across the country were selected. This peasant chorus, which grew up in the resettlement area, stands out with its down-to-earth and immersive rural ideological and political practice, providing a replicable and popularized model for grassroots ideological and political work in Ningxia.

The Farmers' Chorus of Dazhangchang Town was formed in 2019, and its members are all local immigrants from Xihaigu. This group of ordinary farmers sang all the way from the Gobi Desert to the 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage, singing "Come to Sunbathe Autumn", and explored the formation of a work model of "literary and artistic stage, ideological and political opera, mass protagonists, and local roots as the root". They changed the past didactic propaganda and used singing to moisturize things and silently carry out ideological and political education.

Taking root in the hometown, the songs carry the memory of immigration changes. The choir has composed more than 30 original songs. Works such as "Chasing Dreams in the Battlefield" and "Searching for Dreams in Mountains and Seas" record the stories of immigrants relocating, building homes on deserted beaches, and struggling to get rid of poverty. Focusing on themes such as rural revitalization, changing customs, and ecological protection, they have adapted songs such as "Ningxia People Miss the Party's Gratitude Most" and "Mountains and Rivers Together", with earthy songs, telling the real changes of the immigrants' lives becoming sweeter and sweeter.

The choir builds a literary and artistic link between party organizations and the masses, enriches villagers' spare time life with active and healthy cultural activities, and integrates socialist core values ​​into local singing. Many villagers have stepped out of the card table and into the chorus team, and actively participated in rural affairs such as environmental improvement, conflict mediation, and volunteer services, promoting the formation of a governance pattern of self-management, self-service, self-education, and self-supervision by the masses.

Now Zhongning County has cultivated 12 farmer choirs, with more than 2,000 people participating, forming a vivid situation of "one town, one characteristic, every village has singing". Driven by the chorus culture, mass cultural and artistic activities such as square dancing, calligraphy, and paper-cutting have flourished everywhere, continuing to cultivate civilized rural customs, good family traditions, and simple folk customs, and use the power of culture to create the soul of a harmonious and beautiful countryside.