The water-use rights trading among agricultural irrigation water users is crucial to the reform of water-use rights in Ningxia.This paper analyzes the challenges facing irrigation water users in water rights trading and studies the implementation path and key practices of the water-use rights trading model. It suggests that water-use rights confirmed to households

centralized operation

agreement transfer

and benefit distribution are at the heart of the model. Moreover

existing problems in such trading are identified based on the practice of water-use rights trading among irrigation water users in Qingtongxia

a county-level city within the prefecture-level city of Wuzhong

Ningxia

and then improvement countermeasures and suggestions are put forth.