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.
Cuiping District, which belongs to Yibin City, Sichuan Province, is the seat of the Yibin Municipal CPC Committee and the Yibin Municipal people's Government, and is the political, economic, cultural center and transportation hub of Yibin City. It is a municipal district reestablished by Yibin City at the county level in January 1997. Located in the southern edge of Sichuan Basin, located in the junction of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, where the Jinsha River and Minjiang River converge into the mighty Yangtze River, the golden waterway of the Yangtze River begins, so it is known as "the first city of the Yangtze River". Cuiping District covers an area of 1502 square kilometers with a total population of 890000 in 2018. In 2018, the region's GDP broke through the 70 billion yuan mark (the tenth place in the province's counties and districts), an increase of 10% over the same period last year. In 2017, it was awarded as one of the top 100 industrial districts in China. In October 2018, it was selected as one of the top 100 green development areas in 2018. twenty