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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.

Huating City, which belongs to Pingliang City, Gansu Province, is located in the eastern part of Gansu Province. It is located at the confluence of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces (regions). Huating Town was set up in the second year of the Northern Wei, Jin and Tai dynasties (532). It is named after the Huajian Pavilion at the foot of Huangfu Mountain. It has jurisdiction over 1 street, 7 towns, 3 townships, 101 administrative villages and 27 communities, with a total area of 1183 square kilometers and a permanent population of 197000 in 2017. Huating, known as the "porcelain capital of coal city", is the necessary place of the ancient Silk Road, the core area and industrial town of the integrated industrial development of coal, power, chemical and transportation in Gansu Province. it is one of the thirteen coal production bases and one of the three major coal production bases in Northwest China. it is also an important energy supply and freight distribution base in Longdong. Huating Quzi Opera is the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in China, Ankou Town in the Ming Dynasty.
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