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.
Sihui is a county-level city hosted by Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province. Because of the place where the four rivers (Xijiang, Beijiang, Suijiang and Longjiang) will flow, it is named "Sihui". Located in the middle of Guangdong Province, east of Zhaoqing, the northwest edge of the Pearl River Delta, located in the lower reaches of the West, North and Suisanjiang River, the Tropic of Cancer divides the whole territory into two. It is bordered by Sanshui District of Foshan City in the east, Dinghu District of Zhaoqing City in the south, Guangning County in the northwest and Qingxin District of Qingyuan City in the northeast, which belongs to the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone. It entered the ranks of the top 100 counties (cities) in the rural economy and the top 100 counties (cities) in the country in 1993 and 1994 respectively, and achieved a well-off society in 1996. In 2014, Sihui City ranked 97th among the top 100 counties and cities with comprehensive strength of small and medium-sized cities in China and 100 small and medium-sized cities with the most investment potential in China.