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.
Pingchuan District is a municipal district under the jurisdiction of Baiyin City, Gansu Province, which is located in the north of the middle of Baiyin City, Gansu Province. The general characteristics of the topography of Pingchuan District are high in the southeast and low in the northwest, tilting from the southeast to the northwest. The total area is 2106 square kilometers and the population is 209000 (2016). Pingchuan District has jurisdiction over 4 streets, 4 towns and 3 townships. Pingchuan is an important coal and electricity energy base in Gansu, with an annual output of more than 12 million tons of high-quality raw coal and 13 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity generation. Pingchuan is the largest ceramic production base in northwest China, with clay reserves of more than 4 billion tons and annual output of nearly 20 million square meters of wall and floor tiles. Pingchuan has been awarded "China Ceramic Industry transfer demonstration Base" by China Ceramic Industry Association. In 2009, Pingchuan District won the title of Advanced Zone of Scientific and technological Progress in China. In 2016, Pingchuan District achieved regional health throughout the year.