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Fresno (/ˈfrɛznoʊ/) is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about 115 square miles (300 km2) and had a population of 542,107 in 2020, making it the fifth-most populous city in California, the most populous inland city in California, and the 34th-most populous city in the nation. The Metro population of Fresno is 1,008,654 as of 2022.

Named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Fresno was founded in 1872 as a railway station of the Central Pacific Railroad before it was incorporated in 1885. It has since become an economic hub of Fresno County and the San Joaquin Valley, with much of the surrounding areas in the Metropolitan Fresno region predominantly tied to large-scale agricultural production. Fresno is near the geographic center of California, approximately 220 miles (350 km) north of Los Angeles, 170 miles (270 km) south of the state capital, Sacramento, and 185 miles (300 km) southeast of San Francisco. Yosemite National Park is about 60 miles (100 km) to the north, Kings Canyon National Park 60 miles (100 km) to the east, and Sequoia National Park 75 miles (120 km) to the southeast.

Fresno is also the third-largest majority-Hispanic city in the United States; 50.5% of its population was Hispanic in 2020. Since 2010, statewide droughts in California have further strained both Fresno's and the entire Central Valley's water security.

Xihua County is located in the east of Henan Province, under the jurisdiction of Zhoukou City. Total area of 1194 square kilometers, arable land area of 1.1 million mu, jurisdiction over 18 townships, 3 agricultural and forestry farms, household registration population of 920000 (2013). Xihua Han County, known as Xihua, Changping, Jicheng, Gonggou and so on, has been renamed Xihua since the Tang Dynasty. The ruins of Nuwa City are the key cultural relics protection units in Henan Province. Xihua has been awarded the demonstration county of national drinking water safety project, the advanced county of national agricultural technology popularization, the forestry ecological county of the whole province, the double support model county of the whole province, and the advanced county of safe construction of the whole province, and has won the "Red Flag Canal Spirit Cup" of the whole province for five consecutive years. On January 25, 2019, he was selected as the national "Ping an Agricultural Machinery" demonstration county in 2018. On May 9, 2019, after special evaluation and inspection at the provincial level, it reached the hat standard for poverty alleviation.
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