San Jose,[A] officially San José (/ˌsæn hoʊˈzeɪ, -ˈseɪ/; Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse]; Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'),[B] is a major city in the U.S. state of California that is the cultural, financial, and political center of Silicon Valley and largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2020 population of 1,013,240, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 9.7 million people respectively, the third-most populous city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego and ahead of San Francisco), and the tenth-most populous in the United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an area of 179.97 sq mi (466.1 km2). San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of around two million residents in 2018.
Guangning County, which belongs to Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, is located in the central and western part of Guangdong Province, in the middle reaches of Suijiang River, a tributary of Beijiang River. Located in the one-hour living circle of the Pearl River Delta, it is one of the main passageways for Guangdong Province to travel to and from the Pearl River Delta by land from the nearest mountain counties in Guangdong Province and Guangxi, Hunan and other provinces. It is about 122.7 kilometers away from Guangzhou, and runs through the Erguang Expressway and Guiyang-Guangzhou High-speed Railway. The administrative area of the county covers an area of 2455 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 15 towns. in 2017, the county has a registered population of 589300. During the reign of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, riots occurred year after year in the northwest of Sihui County (now Guangning). In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, he successively led the Ming army to suppress the chaos. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Che Sihui County was home to Guangning County. With the meaning of broad peace, Guangning was established. After its establishment, it still belongs to Zhaoqing Prefecture. one