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.
Jianping County, which belongs to Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, is located in the western part of Liaoning Province, where the Yanshan Mountains are in the transition zone from the Yanshan Mountains to the Liao-Shen Plain. It belongs to the transitional zone from the north temperate maritime monsoon climate to the continental climate; it has jurisdiction over 7 streets, 17 towns and 7 townships, and there are 2 similar township-level units with a total area of 4865 square kilometers and a registered household population of 579258 in 2017. Jianping County gave birth to the Hongshan civilization comparable to the pyramids of ancient Egypt as early as five thousand years ago; the head of the painted goddess unearthed at the junction of Jianping and Lingyuan (Niuheliang) pushed forward the sculpture history of the Chinese nation more than 3000 years; in addition, there are unearthed cultural relics Jade Pig Dragon, which found a physical basis for the totem symbol of the Chinese nation. Jianping has beautiful mountains and rivers, rich grass and forest, and there are many kinds of underground minerals, including bentonite.