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.
Panan County, which belongs to Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, is located in the central part of Zhejiang Province (the geographical center of Zhejiang, known as "the Heart of Zhejiang"), bordering Dongyang, Xinchang, Xianju, Tiantai and other cities and counties. Within 2 hours from Hangzhou, Wenzhou and Ningbo, it belongs to the economic zone of the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta and the economic zone of central Zhejiang urban agglomeration. With a total area of 1196 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 7 towns and 5 townships with a population of 209000. Panan County was established in 1939 in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1958, the whole territory was merged into Dongyang County. In 1983, Panan County was restored. Panan is the largest Confucius settlement in the south of the Yangtze River, with two "national key cultural relic protection units" of Yushan ancient tea farm and beech stream Kong family temple and the only national medicinal plant national nature reserve-Dapanshan Nature Reserve, National 4A