Hmong Connection to China

The China Friendship Garden is unique in all the world because it includes several Hmong features in a Chinese garden:  the Hmong Heritage Wall, Hmong Plaza, and 3 Hmong art stones.  This cultural collaboration recognizes that Minnesota is home to approximately 90,000 Hmong and that St. Paul has the largest urban Hmong population in the United States.  The first Hmong family to resettle in Minnesota was in November 1975, and the largest wave came after passage of the US Refugee Act of 1980.  Hmong trace their ancestral roots to China, including to the sister-city Changsha and its Province of Hunan, where the Hmong population numbers nearly two million, with approximately 12 million Hmong in all of China.  This sister-city China Friendship Garden recognizes and celebrates this ancestral connection between the two Hmong populations in these two sister cities.