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.
Yanchi County, located in the east of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, is a county under the jurisdiction of Yinnan region and a famous Tan sheep producing area in Ningxia. The border area between the agricultural and nomadic peoples of China in history. The county government is stationed in Huamachi town. County from southeast to northwest for the vast dry steppe and desert steppe, rich in "salt, fur, sweet licorice". Ningxia Tan Sheep, which is well-known at home and abroad, is the main economic source of Yanchi. There are more than 20 natural salt lakes in the north, east and southwest of the county, so it is named "salt pond". On December 7, 2016, Yanchi County was listed as the third batch of national comprehensive pilot areas for new urbanization. On September 29, 2018, the government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region approved Yanchi County to withdraw from the sequence of poor counties. On October 22, 2018, he was selected as the first for the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas in 2018.