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.
Yangxi County, founded in 1988, belongs to Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province, located on the southwest coast of Guangdong Province, facing Jiangcheng District to the east, Yangchun City to the north, Dianbai District to the west and Nanhai to the south. The total area of the county is 1455 square kilometers and the coastline is 126.6 kilometers long. 325 National Highway and Guang-Zhan Expressway run through the whole territory and form a sea and land transportation network with coastal highway, Yangyang railway and national first-class port Yangjiang port. Yangxi is located in the transitional zone between the south subtropics and the middle subtropics by the mountains and the sea. Yangxi County is the "China knife Center", "China plastic blowing Film Grade Color Masterbatch production Base", "National Jinjiang Oyster hanging and raising Standardization demonstration Zone", and "the hometown of Guangdong Folk songs." In 2014, the GDP of Yangxi County was 16.417 billion yuan. Yangxi County is a pilot project of a country with strong intellectual property rights.