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.
Weixin County, which belongs to Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, is located in the joint of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. It is commonly known as the "three provinces of chicken singing". During the long March, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army held a famous "Taxi meeting" here. The county covers an area of nearly 1400 square kilometers, with more than 420,000 people of Han, Yi and other ethnic groups (2010). Weixin is a typical mountain county, whose agriculture is mainly corn, rice and flue-cured tobacco. Weixin County has Guandoushan stone carving group, Taxi conference site and large-scale Tiantai Mountain karst cave, Fan people hanging coffin and Tianxing National Forest Park. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Weixin County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.