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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.

Minqin County is a county under the jurisdiction of Wuwei City, Gansu Province, which is located in the northeast of Hexi Corridor and the lower reaches of Shiyang River Basin. In 17 years (1928), the name was changed to "plain and mellow, the people are industrious". Minqin County is located in Wuwei in the south, Jinchang in the west, and the left and right banners of Inner Mongolia in the northeast and northwest. It is 206km long from east to west and 156km wide from north to south, with a total area of 15800 square kilometers. By the end of 2017, Minqin County had jurisdiction over 18 towns and 248 villages, with a registered population of 273700 and a resident population of 241300. In 2016, Minqin County achieved a regional GDP of 7.775 billion yuan, an increase of 8.7%. Investment in fixed assets of the whole society reached 20.876 billion yuan, an increase of 13.01%, of which more than 15.617 billion yuan was increased.
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