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Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. As of 2020, Jacksonville's population is 949,611, making it the 12th most populous city in the U.S., the most populous city in the Southeast, and the most populous city in the South outside of the state of Texas. With a population of 1,733,937, the Jacksonville metropolitan area ranks as Florida's fourth-largest metropolitan region.

Jacksonville straddles the St. Johns River in the First Coast region of northeastern Florida, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of the Georgia state line (25 mi or 40 km to the urban core/downtown) and 350 miles (560 km) north of Miami. The Jacksonville Beaches communities are along the adjacent Atlantic coast. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people, and in 1564 was the site of the French colony of Fort Caroline, one of the earliest European settlements in what is now the continental United States. Under British rule, a settlement grew at the narrow point in the river where cattle crossed, known as Wacca Pilatka to the Seminole and the Cow Ford to the British. A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.

Harbor improvements since the late 19th century have made Jacksonville a major military and civilian deep-water port. Its riverine location facilitates Naval Station Mayport, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, the U.S. Marine Corps Blount Island Command, and the Port of Jacksonville, Florida's third largest seaport. Jacksonville's military bases and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay form the third largest military presence in the United States. Significant factors in the local economy include services such as banking, insurance, healthcare and logistics. As with much of Florida, tourism is important to the Jacksonville area, particularly tourism related to golf. People from Jacksonville are sometimes called "Jacksonvillians" or "Jaxsons" (also spelled "Jaxons").

Xinghua City, under the jurisdiction of county-level cities in Jiangsu Province, hosted by Taizhou City, is located in the middle of Jiangsu Province, the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta, between the Yangtze and Huaihe River, and in the hinterland of Lixia River. it is a famous historical and cultural city in Jiangsu Province. Xinghua ancient known as Zhaoyang, also known as Chushui; rich historical and cultural heritage, has a long history, according to textual research, the history of human existence can be traced back to more than 6000 years ago. Xinghua gave birth to world-famous writers, calligraphers and painters such as Shi Nai'an, author of the Water margin, and Zheng Banqiao, head of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou. Xinghua culture has a profound accumulation and talents emerge in large numbers. From Xianchun of the Southern Song Dynasty to Guang Xu at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were 262 people in the middle, 93 in Jinshi and 1 in the top scholar, which is rare in the whole country. Xinghua is a famous "land of fish and rice", the first batch of national global tourism demonstration areas, national ecological demonstration areas, national health cities,
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