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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.

Shiquan County is located in the west of Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, with Qinling Mountains and Nanqianba Mountain in the north, located in the hinterland of Qinba and the bank of Han River, with a total area of 1525 square kilometers. It is a national key county for poverty alleviation and development. Shiquan County was founded in the first year of Emperor Fei in the Western Wei Dynasty (AD 525). It was named because of "many springs in the stone gap in the south of the city and endless runoff". Shiquan County is a national health county and provincial garden county; it is an important destination of Qinba Han River eco-tourism, known as "Qinba landscape, Shiquan ten beauties"; it is the first sericulture industry county in the west, known as "the source of the Silk Road and the hometown of golden silkworms"; it is an important water conservation place for the national south-to-north water transfer and an important electric energy base in the west. It is an important birthplace of pre-Qin culture. Gui Guzi, the ancestor of the vertical and horizontal school, practiced and taught his apprentice in Shiquan County, also known as the hometown of Gui Guzi.
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