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.
Loufan County is a county under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, with geographical coordinates of 111 °31 degrees east longitude and 38 °13 degrees north latitude, located in the northwest of Taiyuan City, the hinterland of Luliang Mountain and the middle and upper reaches of the Fenhe River, 97 kilometers away from the provincial capital Taiyuan, east by Gujiao, west by Fangshan, adjacent to the city in the south, north by Jingle and bordering Lanxian County in the northwest. It is a national key county for poverty alleviation and development in mountainous areas, old areas and reservoir areas. It is also the most important water source and ecological barrier in Taiyuan. Loufan County has a total area of 1289 square kilometers. As of 2012, Loufan County has jurisdiction over 3 towns, 5 townships, 6 neighborhood committees and 142 administrative villages, with a total population of 123000, including an agricultural population of 96000. September 25, 2018, won the Ministry of Commerce "2018 e-commerce into rural areas"