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.
Hezhou, a municipality under the jurisdiction of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, is located in the northeast of Guangxi. It was evacuated and set up in 2002. It is located at the junction of Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces (autonomous regions). The administrative area is 11800 square kilometers. By the end of 2018, it had jurisdiction over Babu District, Pinggui District, Zhongshan County, Zhaoping County and Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, with a resident population of 2.0726 million. Hezhou belongs to the southern subtropical monsoon climate, with sufficient sunshine, abundant rainfall, hot and dry season, obvious dry and wet season, long frost-free period and so on. Hezhou is one of the key forest areas in Guangxi. By the end of 2016, Hezhou had a woodland area of 900400 hectares and a forest coverage rate of 72.87%. In 2018, Hezhou achieved a GDP of 60.263 billion yuan, an increase of 8.9% over the previous year.