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.
Pingdingshan, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Henan Province, alias Eagle City, is located in Central China. Pingdingshan is an important energy and heavy industry base in the Central Plains Economic Zone, and it is also the central city of central Henan; it is high in the west and low in the east, with a trapezoidal distribution, and is located at the edge of warm temperate zone and northern subtropical climate; it now has jurisdiction over 2 cities, 4 counties and 4 districts with an area of 7882 square kilometers and a resident population of 5.2077 million in 2018. Pingdingshan is not only a resource-based industrial city, but also an excellent tourist city, a national garden city, a national forest city, a national sanitary city and a provincial civilized city. It is also the hometown of Chinese Quyi City, Chinese calligraphy City, the hometown of Chinese Guanyin Culture, the hometown of Chinese Ruyao Ceramic Art and the base of Tang Jun in China. There are 169 reservoirs in Pingdingshan, and the middle route of the South-to-North Water transfer Project passes through the city.