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.
Fuxian County, known as Huizhou in ancient times, is located in the north of Shaanxi Province and the south of Yan'an City. It belongs to the hilly and gully zone of Weibei Loess Plateau. The county has a total area of 4182 square kilometers, ranking fifth in Shaanxi Province and the first in Yan'an City, with a total population of 158800 (2016). The county has jurisdiction over 8 towns, 5 townships, 1 subdistrict office and 241 administrative villages. The county has a vast territory and is rich in resources, which is known as "plug on the small Jiangnan" and "Xiaoguanzhong in northern Shaanxi". The comprehensive competitiveness of the county economy of Fuxian ranks among the top 100 counties in the country. it is a famous historical and cultural city in Shaanxi, a provincial health county, a provincial civilized county, a national key cultural relic county, a national good agricultural demonstration county, a financial ecological county in China and one of the top ten progressive counties in China. In March 2019, it was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization district and county list.