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.
Jianping County, which belongs to Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, is located in the western part of Liaoning Province, where the Yanshan Mountains are in the transition zone from the Yanshan Mountains to the Liao-Shen Plain. It belongs to the transitional zone from the north temperate maritime monsoon climate to the continental climate; it has jurisdiction over 7 streets, 17 towns and 7 townships, and there are 2 similar township-level units with a total area of 4865 square kilometers and a registered household population of 579258 in 2017. Jianping County gave birth to the Hongshan civilization comparable to the pyramids of ancient Egypt as early as five thousand years ago; the head of the painted goddess unearthed at the junction of Jianping and Lingyuan (Niuheliang) pushed forward the sculpture history of the Chinese nation more than 3000 years; in addition, there are unearthed cultural relics Jade Pig Dragon, which found a physical basis for the totem symbol of the Chinese nation. Jianping has beautiful mountains and rivers, rich grass and forest, and there are many kinds of underground minerals, including bentonite.