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.
Zhongwei City, referred to as & quot; Wei & quot;, belongs to Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, is located in the central and western part of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia and Gansu provinces. It is the first self-flow irrigation city in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, with a total area of 17000 square kilometers. The topography of Zhongwei City is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, with an average elevation of 1225 meters in the urban area. the geomorphology is divided into five units of the Yellow River alluvial plain, platform, desert, mountains and hills, which belongs to a typical temperate continental monsoon climate. Due to the influence of desert, the sunshine is sufficient and the temperature difference between day and night is large. Zhongwei Yellow River diversion Irrigation area of 1.11 million mu, is an important commercial grain, aquatic products and facility vegetable production base in Northwest China. As of 2016, Zhongwei City has jurisdiction over Shapotou District, Zhongning County and Haiyuan County. 2016