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.
Jiancaoping District, formerly known as the former North suburb, belongs to Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, located in the north of the main urban area of Taiyuan City, surrounded by three mountains and divided into one water. It has jurisdiction over 9 streets, 2 towns, 3 townships, 71 communities and 77 administrative villages; the total population is 430500, of which the agricultural population is 103100; the total area is 285.6 square kilometers, of which the built-up area is 41.6 square kilometers. Jiancaoping District has a profound cultural heritage. Dou Dou, the Jin doctor for whom Confucius returned in the Spring and Autumn period, was born in the hometown of Mr. Fu Shan, a famous thinker, painter and medical scientist in the Ming and Qing dynasties. "Yuwenwu Social Fire" was successfully declared as the fifth batch of provincial non-heritage projects. there are three state-level cultural relics protection units, such as Jingyin Temple, Duofu Temple and Dou Doctor Temple, as well as many scenic spots such as Guanbu out-of-State eight scenery.