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.
Taigu District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province. Located in the middle of Shanxi Province, located in Jinzhong Basin, founded in the Western Han Dynasty, it has a long history and developed culture and commerce. Together with Qixian and Pingyao, it has become a famous hometown of Shanxi merchants, and there are many remains of Jin merchants' courtyards in the territory. Take the Cao family compound and Kong Xiangxi residence (Kong Xiangxi was born in Taigu) as its representative. It is the birthplace of Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, and the birthplace of Kong Xiangxi, a modern tycoon. The famous royal sacred medicine "Guilingji" and "Dingkundan" are produced in Taigu. Taigu cake and jujube are famous all over the country. During the Ming, Qing and Republic of China, tycoons of Taigu businessmen gathered and became the financial and commercial center of northern China, which was inherently known as "dry Wharf" and "Little Beijing". Taigu District was selected into the 2018 National list of Happy 100 Counties in November 2018. March 2019