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.
Shanyin County, a famous historical and cultural city, is a county under the jurisdiction of Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, located in the north of Shanxi Province, between longitude 112 °25 mi 113 °04 east and latitude 39 °11 mi 39 °47 'north. It is adjacent to Ying County in the east, Pidai County in the south, Shuocheng in the west and Pinglu District II in the west, and borders Zuoyun, Youyu and Huairen in the north. The county has jurisdiction over 4 towns and 9 townships, with a total area of 1651 square kilometers and a total population of 241000 (at the end of 2018). County people's government in Daiyue town. The average annual temperature is about 7 ℃. In 2018, the GDP of the region reached 17.969 billion yuan. Shanyin County is rich in natural resources, mainly coal, which is a major coal-producing county, known as "coal township". On September 7, 2018, the Shanxi provincial government formally approved the withdrawal of the "provincial poverty-stricken county" of Shanyin County.