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.
Xiayi County, referred to as Li, known as Liyi in ancient times, is under the jurisdiction of Shangqiu City, Henan Province, known as "the land of Confucius in China". Located in the east of Henan Province, the joint of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, Yongcheng and Dangshan counties to the east, Yucheng County to the west, Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province to the south, Shan County, Heze City, Shandong Province to the north, Longhai Railway and Lianghuo Expressway across Xiayi, it is the best investment city for the Central Plains to undertake the industrial transfer of the three major economic circles of "Yangtze River Delta", "Pearl River Delta" and "around Bohai Bay". As of September 2018, Xiayi County has jurisdiction over 24 townships and 731 administrative villages, with a total area of 1481 square kilometers and a total population of 1.2 million. Xiayi is the ancient capital of China, the ancestral land of China, and one of the birthplaces of Longshan culture. There were people here as early as the Neolithic Age more than 5000 years ago