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.
Xiangcheng County, under the jurisdiction of Xuchang City, Henan Province, is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, the head of the Funiu Mountains in the west and the eastern edge of the Huang-Huai Plain in the east. The terrain is high in the west and low in the east, with a distinct climate of four seasons; the total area is 920sq km, with jurisdiction over 10 towns and 6 townships; the total population is 881700 in 2018. Xiangcheng County in the Spring and Autumn period said "Yi", later because of the refuge of King Zhou Xiangcheng, hence the name Xiangcheng. Xiangcheng County has been established after Qin Tong and six Kingdoms for more than 2200 years. There are many cultural relics and monuments in the territory, including Ziyun Academy, one of the eight major academies in the country in the Ming Dynasty, Qianming Temple, the first Zen Forest in Zhongzhou, which was built during the Tang Dynasty (618-626), and the Taoist shrine, Bainingang Wuyue Temple. The ancient city walls and urns left in the Spring and Autumn period, as well as cultural relics protection units, cultural relics and monuments, cultural relics protection sites, such as Confucian temples and Kuibi, 10