Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality in, and the county seat of, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States Census, a 15.02% increase since 2010. Colorado Springs is the second-most populous city and the most extensive city in the state of Colorado, and the 40th-most populous city in the United States. It is the principal city of the Colorado Springs metropolitan area and the second-most prominent city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. It is located in east-central Colorado, on Fountain Creek, 70 miles (113 km) south of Denver.
Dazhou, a prefecture-level city of Sichuan Province, is located in the east of Sichuan Province. it has a history of more than 1900 years since the establishment of the county in the Eastern Han Dynasty. With an area of 16591 square kilometers, Dazhou has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts, 4 counties and 1 county-level city, plus a high-tech zone with a total population of 6.9 million (as of December 2018, the population of the central district of Dazhou was 1.025 million). Dazhou is a populous city, an agricultural city, a resource-rich city, an industrial town, a transportation hub and an old revolutionary base in Sichuan Province. Luojiaba site and Chengba site in Dazhou are the birthplace of the ancient Ba people and Ba Culture Center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the center of Baqu culture in Sichuan, one of the three major gas fields in the country and the starting point of the national "Sichuan gas transmission from east". It is a comprehensive national natural gas.