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.
Lianyuan City, which belongs to Loudi City, Hunan Province, is located in the central part of Hunan Province, the northern margin of Hengshao Basin, the upper reaches of Lianshui and Sunshui. Lianyuan City, with a total area of 1830 square kilometers, has jurisdiction over 19 township offices and 1 high-tech zone, with a resident population of 983000 by the end of 2017. Lianyuan is located in the geometric center of Hunan and is an important transportation hub in central Hunan. Lou-Xin Expressway, Changshaolou Expressway, Erguang Expressway and Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway run through the whole territory. Lianyuan City is rich in natural resources, known as "sea of coal", "hometown of building materials" and "hometown of non-ferrous metals". It is Hunan energy and raw material base, 100 key coal-producing counties and cities, national well-known coal machinery production base, and national grain-producing counties. In 2018, Lianyuan City achieved a GDP of 29.06 billion yuan.