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.
Songming County, which belongs to Kunming City, Yunnan Province, is located in the middle of Yunnan Province and in the northeast of Kunming City. It is a suburb county under the jurisdiction of Kunming City, 43 kilometers away from Kunming. It is bordered by Yiliang to the east, Kunming Guandu to the south, Fumin to the southwest, Xundian to the northwest and north, and Malone to the northeast. It covers an area of 1357.29 square kilometers with a total population of 339700. Songyang Town, where the government is stationed, is the political, economic and cultural center of Songming County. In 2012, the GDP reached 6.502 billion yuan, including 1.14 billion yuan for the primary industry, 3.55 billion yuan for the secondary industry and 1.76 billion yuan for the tertiary industry. Songming County is known as "granary in central Yunnan", "hometown of lanterns" and "hometown of dragons and lions". In November 2018, he was named on the list of China's 100 Happy Counties in 2018.