The Preparatory Committee of the Ningxia Federation of Trade Unions was established in Yinchuan on November 7, 1949.[2] The First Trade Union Committee of the Ningxia Provincial Federation of Trade Unions was founded on June 5, 1950.[3][4]
The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Federation of Trade Unions was formally founded on March 4, 1960. It integrated Hui and Han workers in state projects like the Qingtongxia Hydropower Station in 1958 and Ningxia Coal Industry. After 2010, it focused on poverty alleviation through the Ningxia Ecological Migration Skills Program in 2016, training rural laborers for photovoltaic industries and Zhongwei Cloud Computing Bases.[5]