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.
Muchuan County, under the jurisdiction of Leshan City, Sichuan Province, is located in the southwest of Sichuan Basin, the triangle between Minjiang River, Dadu River and Jinsha River in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is bordered by Yibin in the east, Pingshan County in the south, Shawan District and Jianwei County in the north, Ebian County in the west and Mabian County in the southwest. It covers an area of 1408 square kilometers with a population of 260000. The territory has fresh air, beautiful scenery, rich products and simple folk customs, with a forest coverage rate of 77.34%, known as "natural oxygen bar" and "green pearl". It is the pilot county of the national ecological civilization demonstration project, the national ecological demonstration area, the national key ecological functional area, the hometown of bamboo in China, the national greening model county, the national forestry science and technology demonstration county, and the best green eco-tourism county in China. On July 31, 2018, the Sichuan Provincial Government approved Muchuan County to withdraw from poverty.