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Virginia Beach is an independent city located on the southeastern coast of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 459,470 at the 2020 census. Although mostly suburban in character, it is the most populous city in Virginia, fifth-most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, ninth-most populous city in the Southeast and the 42nd-most populous city in the U.S. Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach is the largest city in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. This area, known as "America's First Region", also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk, as well as other smaller cities, counties, and towns of Hampton Roads.

Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. Every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the North American Sand Soccer Championship, a beach soccer tournament. It is also home to several state parks, several long-protected beach areas, military bases, a number of large corporations, Virginia Wesleyan University and Regent University, the international headquarters and site of the television broadcast studios for Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment, and numerous historic sites. Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists, who eventually settled in Jamestown, on April 26, 1607.

Jianping County, which belongs to Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, is located in the western part of Liaoning Province, where the Yanshan Mountains are in the transition zone from the Yanshan Mountains to the Liao-Shen Plain. It belongs to the transitional zone from the north temperate maritime monsoon climate to the continental climate; it has jurisdiction over 7 streets, 17 towns and 7 townships, and there are 2 similar township-level units with a total area of 4865 square kilometers and a registered household population of 579258 in 2017. Jianping County gave birth to the Hongshan civilization comparable to the pyramids of ancient Egypt as early as five thousand years ago; the head of the painted goddess unearthed at the junction of Jianping and Lingyuan (Niuheliang) pushed forward the sculpture history of the Chinese nation more than 3000 years; in addition, there are unearthed cultural relics Jade Pig Dragon, which found a physical basis for the totem symbol of the Chinese nation. Jianping has beautiful mountains and rivers, rich grass and forest, and there are many kinds of underground minerals, including bentonite.
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