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.
Xiangcheng, located in the southeast of Henan Province, Zhoukou City under the jurisdiction of county-level cities, located in the south of the Yellow River alluvial plain, the main tributary of the Huaihe River in the middle reaches of the Shaying River. Located at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces, Da-Guang Expressway and Ningluo Expressway meet in the urban area, 106 National Highway and 5 provincial highways cross the whole territory, Luofu Railway connects Jingguang and Jingjiu, and Shaying River shipping runs directly to the Yangtze River. it is a better meeting point of people flow, material flow, capital flow and information flow in southeast Henan. In 2018, the city's GDP reached 33.991 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the same period last year. Xiangcheng's industrial system, which is supported by monosodium glutamate, leather, medicine and textile, is the largest handmade shoe production base in China, the location of China's famous lotus monosodium glutamate, and the nearest waterway city in the central and western regions to the Yangtze River Delta. In 2011, he won the "Best Investment City in China" and "medium".