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San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/; Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California in the United States. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers), at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, San Fran, The City, Frisco, and Baghdad by the Bay.

San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred by leading universities, high-tech, healthcare, FIRE, and professional services sectors. As of 2020, the metropolitan area, with 6.7 million residents, ranked 5th by GDP ($874 billion) and 2nd by GDP per capita ($131,082) across the OECD countries, ahead of global cities like Paris, London, and Singapore. San Francisco anchors the 13th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 4.6 million residents, and the fourth-largest by aggregate income and economic output, with a GDP of $669 billion in 2021. The wider San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area is the fifth most populous, with 9.5 million residents, and the third-largest by economic output, with a GDP of $1.25 trillion in 2021. In the same year, San Francisco proper had a GDP of $236.4 billion, and a GDP per capita of $289,990. San Francisco was ranked seventh in the world and third in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of March 2022.

Pingxiang, a city under the jurisdiction of Jiangxi Province (prefectural level), an important member of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, is located in the west of Jiangxi Province, bordering Yichun City in the east, Ji'an City in the south, Zhuzhou City in Hunan Province in the west and Liuyang City in Hunan Province in the north. The landform is more complex and belongs to the subtropical humid monsoon climate zone with four distinct seasons; it has jurisdiction over 3 counties and 2 districts with a total area of 3823.99 square kilometers and has a resident population of 1.9332 million at the end of 2018. In 2018, Pingxiang achieved a regional gross domestic product (GDP) of 100.905 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7% over the previous year. Pingxiang is the "west gate" of Jiangxi, which is in the central position in the economic development pattern of western Jiangxi. It is known as "the thoroughfare of Hunan and Jiangxi" and "the throat of Wu and Chu". Pingxiang is located in the radiation core area of the Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan economic circle and accepts the Pan-Pearl River Delta.
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