Wichita (/ˈwɪtʃɪtɔː/ WITCH-ih-taw) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610 in 2020. It is located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River.
Wichita began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s and was incorporated as a city in 1870. It became a destination for cattle drives traveling north from Texas to Kansas railroads, earning it the nickname "Cowtown". Wyatt Earp served as a police officer in Wichita for around one year before going to Dodge City.
Taishan City, formerly known as Xinning, was established in 1992 as a county-level city in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, located in the southwest of the Pearl River Delta, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao and the South China Sea, adjacent to Xinhui, Kaiping, Enping and Yangjiang respectively. It has the reputation of "the first hometown of overseas Chinese", "two Taishan inside and outside", "the hometown of volleyball", "the hometown of Guangdong Music", "the hometown of Chinese Quyi" and "the hometown of elegant Art". Taishan covers an area of 3286 square kilometers. It now has jurisdiction over two experimental areas, 20 towns and an overseas Chinese farm, which is divided into 503 village committees and 3655 natural villages. At the end of 2016, the city's total registered public security population was 970500, including 395200 in urban areas and 575300 in rural areas. In November 2018, it was identified as the leader by the Ministry of Science and Technology.