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.
Yexian County, located in the southwest-central part of Henan Province, is the "rock salt capital of China". It has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 9 towns, 6 townships, 880000 people (2011), with a total area of 1387 square kilometers. Yexian not only has a rich connotation of the county government of the Ming Dynasty, but also has a long history and profound cultural heritage. In ancient times, it was the land of Yuzhou, the state of Zhou, and the capital of the State of Chu in the Spring and Autumn period. Yexian is the fiefdom of Shen Zhuliang, the first ancestor surnamed Ye, a famous statesman and military strategist, and it is the ancestral land of 23 million Ye descendants in the world. Yexian County is rich in mineral resources, with salt as the most, with an area of 400square kilometers and reserves of 330 billion tons. It ranks first in the grade of well and mineral salt in the country and is named quot;-quot;, the rock salt capital of China by the National Mining Federation. May 2019