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.
Qinghe County, which belongs to the Altay region of Xinjiang, is located in the northeast of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, Fuyun County to the west, Qitai County to the south, Mongolia to the east and north, and the boundary line is 280 km long. The longest is 258km from north to south and 110km from east to west, with a total area of 15579.5 square kilometers (2013). There are 16 ethnic groups in Qinghe County, including Kazak, Han, Mongolian, Hui, Uygur and so on. Among them, Kazak accounted for 76.46%, Han nationality accounted for 18.55%, and other ethnic minorities accounted for 4.99%. Qinghe, Mongolian "Qinggli", means "beautiful and clear river". Qinghe County has a continental north temperate arid climate, with high mountains and cold mountains, no obvious changes in the four seasons, dry air, long and cold winters, strong winds and cool summers. Qinghe County 2