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.
Xinxing County, which belongs to Yunfu City, Guangdong Province, is located in the west-central part of Guangdong Province, southeast of Yunfu City, adjacent to the Pearl River Delta, 140km away from the provincial capital Guangzhou, with a total area of 1523 square kilometers. It is 100 kilometers away from the nearest point of the ocean and belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone. Xinxing County Sanmao Railway, S276, S113 lines run through the whole territory, in the "Pearl River Delta one-hour economic circle." The total mileage of county highway is 962.908 km. It has jurisdiction over 12 towns, 199 villages (communities) and 1077 natural villages in 2018. In 2016, there were 492700 registered residents and 450100 permanent residents, as well as more than 150000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It is one of the hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province and belongs to the Cantonese dialect area. Xinxing County is the industrial base of stainless steel products in China.