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.
Xihua County is located in the east of Henan Province, under the jurisdiction of Zhoukou City. Total area of 1194 square kilometers, arable land area of 1.1 million mu, jurisdiction over 18 townships, 3 agricultural and forestry farms, household registration population of 920000 (2013). Xihua Han County, known as Xihua, Changping, Jicheng, Gonggou and so on, has been renamed Xihua since the Tang Dynasty. The ruins of Nuwa City are the key cultural relics protection units in Henan Province. Xihua has been awarded the demonstration county of national drinking water safety project, the advanced county of national agricultural technology popularization, the forestry ecological county of the whole province, the double support model county of the whole province, and the advanced county of safe construction of the whole province, and has won the "Red Flag Canal Spirit Cup" of the whole province for five consecutive years. On January 25, 2019, he was selected as the national "Ping an Agricultural Machinery" demonstration county in 2018. On May 9, 2019, after special evaluation and inspection at the provincial level, it reached the hat standard for poverty alleviation.