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.
Yinchuan, referred to as "Yin", is the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, a national historical and cultural city, and one of the important central cities in Northwest China. The military, political, economic, cultural, scientific research, transportation and financial center of the autonomous region is a comprehensive industrial city focusing on the development of light and textile industry and coordinated development of machinery, chemical industry and building materials industry. Located in the middle of Ningxia Plain, located on the western edge of Ordos in the east and Helan Mountain in the west, the Yellow River runs through the city. It is a famous historical and cultural city in China, a central city in the adjacent area of Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and Gansu, and a node city of the Silk Road. it is a key economic zone for the in-depth implementation of the western development strategy. Yinchuan is an ancient city with a long history. Human beings thrived at the Shuidonggou site as early as 30,000 years ago. Yinchuan, the capital of the Xixia Dynasty in history, is a famous historical and cultural city of the country.