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Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km2) near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's population as of the 2020 census was 403,455, making it the 48th-most populous city in the United States of America and the 9th-most populous city in California. The Bakersfield–Delano Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Kern County, had a 2020 census population of 909,235, making it the 62nd-largest metropolitan area in the United States. The more built-up portion of the metro area that includes Bakersfield and areas immediately around the city, such as East Bakersfield, Oildale, and Rosedale, has a population of 523,994.

Bakersfield is a significant hub for both agriculture and energy production. Kern County is the most productive oil-producing county in California and the fourth-most productive agricultural county (by value) in the United States. Industries in and around Bakersfield include natural gas and other energy extraction, mining, petroleum refining, distribution, food processing, and corporate regional offices. The city is the birthplace of the country music genre known as the Bakersfield sound.

Siping, a prefecture-level city in Jilin Province, is located in the central hinterland of Songliao Plain and at the junction of Liao, Jilin and Mongolia provinces. Siping is an important transportation hub and logistics node city in Northeast China, which leads to the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei in the eastern part of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia. Siping has an area of 14323 square kilometers and a population of 3.204 million, including an urban area of 1100 square kilometers and a population of 625000. Siping has jurisdiction over Tiedong District, Tiexi District, Gongzhuling City, Shuangliao City, Lishu County and Yitong County. Siping has a long history, and the site of the ancient city of Yan on the bank of Erlong Lake, 50 kilometers away from the urban area, is the witness of the Han nationality's earliest development of Northeast China. History has left cultural monuments such as Hanzhou in Liao Dynasty, Xinzhou in Jin Dynasty and Yehe Tribe in Ming Dynasty. Daqingshan Village cultural sites, Yehe ancient city ruins, Liao and Jin dynasties
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