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.
Jiuzhi County is a county under the jurisdiction of Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province and one of the animal husbandry production bases in Qinghai Province. It is located in the southeast of the state, at the junction of Qinghai, Sichuan and Gansu provinces, adjacent to Aba County in Sichuan Province in the southeast, Banma County in the south, Dari County in the west, the Yellow River and Gande County in the northwest, and Maqu County in Gansu Province in the northeast. Jiuzhi established the people's Government of Jiuzhi County in March 1955, which has jurisdiction over 5 townships and 1 town. The total area is 8757.25 square kilometers. As of 2012, the total population of Jiuzhi County is 26000, mainly Tibetan, Han, Hui, Mongolian, Tu and other ethnic groups, of which 24000 are Tibetans, accounting for 95.6% of the total population. There are more than 10 Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in Jiuzhi County. In 2013, the GDP of Jiuzhi County was 269 million yuan, an increase over the same period last year.