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Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia, also known as Washington or D.C. or locally simply as the District, is the capital city and federal district of the United States. It is located on the east bank of the Potomac River, which forms its southwestern and southern border with the U.S. state of Virginia, and it shares a land border with the U.S. state of Maryland on its other sides. The city was named for George Washington, a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, and the federal district is named after Columbia, the female personification of the nation. As the seat of the U.S. federal government and several international organizations, the city is an important world political capital. It is one of the most visited cities in the U.S., with over 20 million annual visitors as of 2016.

The U.S. Constitution provides for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress; the district is not a part of any U.S. state (nor is it one itself). The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of the capital district located along the Potomac River near the country's East Coast. The City of Washington was founded in 1791, and Congress held its first session there in 1800. In 1801, the territory, formerly part of Maryland and Virginia (including the settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria), officially became recognized as the federal district. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia, including the city of Alexandria; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the district. There have been efforts to make the city into a state since the 1880s, a movement that has gained momentum in recent years, and a statehood bill passed the House of Representatives in 2021.

Guangning County, which belongs to Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province, is located in the central and western part of Guangdong Province, in the middle reaches of Suijiang River, a tributary of Beijiang River. Located in the one-hour living circle of the Pearl River Delta, it is one of the main passageways for Guangdong Province to travel to and from the Pearl River Delta by land from the nearest mountain counties in Guangdong Province and Guangxi, Hunan and other provinces. It is about 122.7 kilometers away from Guangzhou, and runs through the Erguang Expressway and Guiyang-Guangzhou High-speed Railway. The administrative area of the county covers an area of 2455 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 15 towns. in 2017, the county has a registered population of 589300. During the reign of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, riots occurred year after year in the northwest of Sihui County (now Guangning). In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, he successively led the Ming army to suppress the chaos. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Che Sihui County was home to Guangning County. With the meaning of broad peace, Guangning was established. After its establishment, it still belongs to Zhaoqing Prefecture. one
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