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.
Minqin County is a county under the jurisdiction of Wuwei City, Gansu Province, which is located in the northeast of Hexi Corridor and the lower reaches of Shiyang River Basin. In 17 years (1928), the name was changed to "plain and mellow, the people are industrious". Minqin County is located in Wuwei in the south, Jinchang in the west, and the left and right banners of Inner Mongolia in the northeast and northwest. It is 206km long from east to west and 156km wide from north to south, with a total area of 15800 square kilometers. By the end of 2017, Minqin County had jurisdiction over 18 towns and 248 villages, with a registered population of 273700 and a resident population of 241300. In 2016, Minqin County achieved a regional GDP of 7.775 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7%. Investment in fixed assets of the whole society reached 20.876 billion yuan, an increase of 13.01%, of which more than 15.617 billion yuan was increased.