The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With 8,472 square miles (21,940 km2) and a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee's Summit, Missouri.
Bijie, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province, is located in the northwest of Guizhou, one of the Golden Triangle of Guizhou, the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain, the key of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, the throat of Yunnan, the gateway of Bashu, and the barrier of the Pearl River of the Yangtze River, bordering Yunnan to the west and Sichuan to the north. it is the birthplace of Wujiang, Beipanjiang and Chishui River. it is a place with multi-ethnic settlement, splendid history and culture, rich resources, magical beauty, thoroughfare of three provinces and shining red stars. Bijie is an important energy base of the national "power transmission from west to east", the national new energy and chemical industry base, the national new energy automobile high-tech industrialization base, and the national biomedical industry base. the agglomeration of many emerging industries, such as modern mountain high-efficiency ecological agriculture, new energy, new building materials, service outsourcing and call center with big data as the core, is the only one in the country to develop poverty alleviation and health.