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.
Weixin County, which belongs to Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, is located in the joint of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces. It is commonly known as the "three provinces of chicken singing". During the long March, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army held a famous "Taxi meeting" here. The county covers an area of nearly 1400 square kilometers, with more than 420,000 people of Han, Yi and other ethnic groups (2010). Weixin is a typical mountain county, whose agriculture is mainly corn, rice and flue-cured tobacco. Weixin County has Guandoushan stone carving group, Taxi conference site and large-scale Tiantai Mountain karst cave, Fan people hanging coffin and Tianxing National Forest Park. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided that Weixin County would withdraw from the sequence of poor counties.