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.
Wuzhong City, located in the middle of Ningxia, was originally the resident of Gu Lingzhou City and Jinji County, located in the hinterland of Ningxia Plain, high in the south and low in the north, and belongs to the arid and semi-arid climate area in the middle temperate zone. The city has a total area of 21400 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over two districts, one city and two counties. By the end of 2018, the total resident population of Wuzhong City was 1.4154 million, an increase of 11600, or 0.83%, over the end of last year. According to the annual report of the Public Security Bureau, the total registered population at the end of the year was 1.4378 million. Wuzhong City has been an important passage of the Silk Road since ancient times, an important node city of the New Silk Road Economic Belt, and a regional trade city along the New Eurasian Continental Bridge. The domestic road network is dense and convenient, with 4 railways and 5 highways running through the city area, Wuzhong-Zhongwei intercity railway and Yinxi high-speed railway Wuzhong hub station.