Guiyang, Guizhou and Milwaukee, Wisconsin were chosen to be research sites in this study. Guizhou province
is located in southwestern China, and Guiyang is the capital city of Guizhou province. Guiyang and its surrounding
suburban regions have a population of about one million people. Economically, Guizhou is not as developed as cities
such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Quandong. The Milwaukee metropolitan area is located in the midwestern region of
the United States. There are about one million people in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Like Guiyang, metropolitan
Milwaukee is not as economically developed as areas in the western or eastern parts of the United States.