El Paso (/ɛl ˈpæsoʊ/; Spanish: [el ˈpaso] "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the sixth-largest city in Texas, and the second-largest city in the Southwestern United States behind Phoenix, Arizona. The city is also the second-largest majority-Hispanic city in the U.S., with 81% of its population being Hispanic. Its metropolitan statistical area covers all of El Paso and Hudspeth counties in Texas, and had a population of 868,859 in 2020. El Paso has consistently been ranked as one of the safest large cities in America.
El Paso stands on the Rio Grande across the Mexico–United States border from Ciudad Juárez, the most-populous city in the Mexican state of Chihuahua with over 1.5 million people. The Las Cruces area, in the neighboring U.S. state of New Mexico, has a population of 219,561. On the U.S. side, the El Paso metropolitan area forms part of the larger El Paso–Las Cruces combined statistical area, with a population of 1,088,420.
Bijie, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province, is located in the northwest of Guizhou, one of the Golden Triangle of Guizhou, the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain, the key of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, the throat of Yunnan, the gateway of Bashu, and the barrier of the Pearl River of the Yangtze River, bordering Yunnan to the west and Sichuan to the north. it is the birthplace of Wujiang, Beipanjiang and Chishui River. it is a place with multi-ethnic settlement, splendid history and culture, rich resources, magical beauty, thoroughfare of three provinces and shining red stars. Bijie is an important energy base of the national "power transmission from west to east", the national new energy and chemical industry base, the national new energy automobile high-tech industrialization base, and the national biomedical industry base. the agglomeration of many emerging industries, such as modern mountain high-efficiency ecological agriculture, new energy, new building materials, service outsourcing and call center with big data as the core, is the only one in the country to develop poverty alleviation and health.