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.
Lishu County, which belongs to Siping City, Jilin Province, is located in the southwest of Jilin Province, located in the hinterland of Songliao Plain, bounded by Liaohe River to the east of Gongzhuling City in the east, Shuangliao City in the north, Changtu County in Liaoning Province in the west and Siping City in the south. It is between 123 °45 degrees east longitude 124 °53 kilometers east longitude and 43 °02 degrees north latitude, 43 °46 degrees north latitude. The total area is 4209 square kilometers. The terrain is high in the southeast and low in the northwest. Low mountains and hills in the south, wavy plains in the middle, and East Liaohe alluvial plain in the north. Lishu established a county in the fourth year of Guang Xu of the Qing Dynasty (1878), formerly known as "Fenghua County". It was once the birthplace of the Qing Emperor Nuerhachi "Fujin", the birthplace of Empress Dowager Xiaocigao, the birth mother of Empress Taiji and the ancestral place of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Lishu County has the reputation of "Northeast granary" and "Songliao Pearl". As of 201