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.
Qi County (Q í xiqin) belongs to Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, located in the middle of Shanxi Province, known as "Zhaoyu" in ancient times, named after "Zhaoyu Qi Ze Tou", the glassware capital of China. The county has jurisdiction over 6 towns and 2 townships (Zhaoyu Town, Dongguan Town, Guxian Town, Jia Ling Town, Chengzhao Town, Laiyuan Town, Xiliuzhi Township, Yukou Township), 160 administrative villages, 289 natural villages, and a provincial development zone. By 2017, the county has a total area of 854 square kilometers and a resident population of 274700. In 2016, the county's GDP reached 7.1737 billion yuan, an increase of 5.9 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the added value of the primary industry was 1.71842 billion yuan, up 2.9%, accounting for 24.0% of the GDP, and the added value of the secondary industry was 1.95003 billion yuan, up 7%.