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.
Pingyuan County is located in the northwest of Shandong Province, belonging to Dezhou City, bordering Linyi County and Yucheng City in the east and southeast, Wucheng and Xiajin in the west and southwest, Gaotang in the south and Decheng and Lingcheng in the north. Pingyuan County is located in the northwest plain of Shandong Province in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, with flat terrain and slow tilt from southwest to northeast. The climate belongs to the continental monsoon climate of the north temperate zone, with four distinct seasons and sufficient sunshine. The administrative area covers an area of 1047 square kilometers, with a total population of 470000. It has jurisdiction over 8 towns, 2 townships, 2 streets and 1 economic development zone. Pingyuan County is the hometown of "grain production base", "Beijing-Tianjin vegetable park", "strong county of animal husbandry", "big county of live pigs", "hometown of pigeons", Zhang Quanjing, an expert in the history of party building, Ren Jiyu, the late master of Sinology, Deng Youmei, a famous writer, and so on.