Shouning County (; Foochow Romanized: Sêu-nìng-gâing) is a small county located in the northeast of Fujian province of People's Republic of China, bordering Zhejiang province to the northeast. It is under the jurisdiction of Ningde City, An Eastern Min dialect of Min Chinese (similar to the Fuzhou dialect) is spoken there.
There are a number of covered bridges located there, and of the 100 or so woven timber arch "lounge bridges" throughout China, Shouning County has 19. The county hosted the second international conference on Chinese covered bridges from September 20 to 23, 2007.
Beilu opera (also called Luantan), a variety of Min opera, is popular in Shouning County.
The county spans an area of , and has a population of about 177,960 as of 2020.
Shouning County was first established in 1455, under the reign of the Jingtai Emperor of the Ming dynasty.
Shouning County comprises eight towns and six townships. These are then divided into 205 administrative villages.
The county's eight towns are , , Nanyang, , , , , and .
The county's six townships are , , , , , and Xiadang Township.
As of 2019, Shouning County's gross domestic product totaled ÃÂ¥10.06 billion, a 7.7% increase from 2018. Of this, animal husbandry and aquaculture comprised ÃÂ¥2.82 billion, up 4.2% from 2018. The county's retail sales in 2019 totaled ÃÂ¥3.28 billion, up 11.5% from 2018. As of 2019, the county's urban residents experienced a per capita disposable income of ÃÂ¥28,023, a 9.1% increase from 2018; the county's rural residents had a per capita disposable income of ÃÂ¥15,359, up 10.2% from 2018.
Feng Menglong, a famous Chinese writer, once served as the county magistrate of Shouning County.
The film "Love on the Covered Bridge" () was shot in Shouning County.