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.
Jianping County, which belongs to Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, is located in the western part of Liaoning Province, where the Yanshan Mountains are in the transition zone from the Yanshan Mountains to the Liao-Shen Plain. It belongs to the transitional zone from the north temperate maritime monsoon climate to the continental climate; it has jurisdiction over 7 streets, 17 towns and 7 townships, and there are 2 similar township-level units with a total area of 4865 square kilometers and a registered household population of 579258 in 2017. Jianping County gave birth to the Hongshan civilization comparable to the pyramids of ancient Egypt as early as five thousand years ago; the head of the painted goddess unearthed at the junction of Jianping and Lingyuan (Niuheliang) pushed forward the sculpture history of the Chinese nation more than 3000 years; in addition, there are unearthed cultural relics Jade Pig Dragon, which found a physical basis for the totem symbol of the Chinese nation. Jianping has beautiful mountains and rivers, rich grass and forest, and there are many kinds of underground minerals, including bentonite.