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.
Heshan, a county-level city in charge of Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta in the south of Guangdong Province, facing Nanhai District and Shunde District in the east, Gaoming District in the north, Pengjiang District and Xinhui District in the south, and Kaiping City and Xinxing County in the west. 325 National Highway, Jianghe Expressway, Fokai Expressway and Jiangzhao Highway run through the city. One of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Heshan was founded as a county in the tenth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1732). It was named because there are mountains in the city that look like cranes. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it was jointly known as Gaohe County with Gaoming County, and the organizational system of Heshan County was restored in 1982. In November 1993, the county was withdrawn and established as a city, under the jurisdiction of 10 towns, 22 community committees, 137 village committees and 10 immigrant villages in the three Gorges Reservoir area. Heshan City has won "80 well-off counties (cities)" and "one of the top 100 counties with national comprehensive strength".