San Antonio (/ˌsæn ænˈtoʊnioʊ/ SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in Texas, United States. The city is the seventh-most populous in the United States, the second-largest in the Southern United States, and the second-most populous in Texas. It is the 12th most-populous city in North America, with 1,434,625 residents in 2020.
Founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city in 1731 became the first chartered civil settlement in what is now present-day Texas. The area was then part of the Spanish Empire. From 1821 to 1836, it was part of the Mexican Republic. It is the oldest municipality in Texas, having celebrated its 300th anniversary on May 1, 2018.
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.