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.
Xiayi County, referred to as Li, known as Liyi in ancient times, is under the jurisdiction of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, known as "the land of Confucius in China". Located in the east of Henan Province, the joint of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, Yongcheng and Dangshan counties to the east, Yucheng County to the west, Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province to the south, Shan County, Heze City, Shandong Province to the north, Longhai Railway and Lianghuo Expressway across Xiayi, it is the best investment city for the Central Plains to undertake the industrial transfer of the three major economic circles of "Yangtze River Delta", "Pearl River Delta" and "around Bohai Bay". As of September 2018, Xiayi County has jurisdiction over 24 townships and 731 administrative villages, with a total area of 1481 square kilometers and a total population of 1.2 million. Xiayi is the ancient capital of China, the ancestral land of China, and one of the birthplaces of Longshan culture. There were people here as early as the Neolithic Age more than 5000 years ago