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.
Qingtian County is located in the southeast of Zhejiang Province, in the middle and lower reaches of Oujiang River. It is bordered by Wenzhou, Yongjia, Nanlian and Wencheng to the east, Lishui and Jingning she Autonomous County to the west, and Jinyun to the north. The county covers a total area of 2493 square kilometers, which is known as "nine mountains, half water and half land". It is known as "the stone capital of China, Qingtian of the world". Qingtian has a long history and is known as "the hometown of stone carvings, the hometown of overseas Chinese and the hometown of celebrities". It is also the first county in house prices in China, the top ten financial counties in China, the first county in foreign exchange, and the first county in per capita deposits. Qingtian also has the world agricultural heritage-Qingtian rice-fish symbiosis system. Qingtian stone is the first of the four national stones, the stone of Nu Yi mends the sky, and the seal is the first of the three seals. In 2013, Qingtian deeply implemented the development strategy of "deepening radiation to Wenzhou, building Qingtian in the world, and building a happy hometown of overseas Chinese".