Mianyang


Mianyang is the second largest prefecture-level city of Sichuan province in Southwestern China. It borders Nanchong City to the east, Suining City to the south, Deyang City to the southwest, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture to the west, Gansu Province to the north, and Guangyuan City to the northeast. Located in north-central Sichuan covering an area of consisting of Jiangyou, a county-level city, five counties, and three urban districts. At the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, the resident population will be 4.922 million, with an urbanization rate of 56.93%, an urban population of 2,802,100, and a rural population of 2.1199 million.

History

Mianyang, which was known as Fuxian in ancient times, also known as Fu County and Mianzho had advanced in agriculture during the Qin and Han dynasties. It has a history of over 2,200 years since the Emperor Gaozu of Han established the first county in this area in 201 BCE. Due to its advantageous location, it had always been a town of great military importance and formed a natural defence for Chengdu.
Mianyang is home to the CAEP and Science City, an immense Military Research Complex which was the site of the development of China's first nuclear bomb.
The city proper itself was only lightly damaged by the earthquake of 12 May 2008. However, Beichuan County, which is in the prefecture, was among the most severely hit of all disaster regions following the earthquake, including the Beichuan High School campus where more than 1,000 students lost their lives after two main buildings collapsed. Around 80% of the county's buildings are said to have collapsed, including its main government building. The casualty toll for the quake in Mianyang Prefecture as of 7 June 2008, was 21,963 people killed, 167,742 injured, and 8,744 people missing.

Geography

Mianyang is at the northwestern end of the Sichuan Basin, on the upper to middle reaches of the Fu River. Its administrative area ranges in latitude from 30° 42' to 33° 03' N and in longitude from 103° 45' to 105° 43' E. Bordering prefectures are Guangyuan to the northeast, Nanchong to the east, Suining to the south, Deyang to the southwest, and the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture to the west. It also borders Gansu for a small section in the north.

Climate

Mianyang has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate and is largely mild and humid, with four distinct seasons. Winter is short, mild, and foggy, though precipitation is low. January averages, and while frost may occur, snow is rare. Summers are long, hot, and humid, with highs often exceeding. The daily average in July, the warmest month, is.The average annual temperature is between 18 °C and 21 °C. Rainfall is light in winter and can be heavy in summer, and more than 70% of the annual total occurs from May to September. The annual frost-free period across most of the prefecture lasts from 252 to 300 days, and there are only 1,100 hours of sunshine annually, which is not even 30% of the possible total.

Transport

The city has highway and railway connections to several major cities and is on the road from Xi'an to the provincial capital of Chengdu as well as the Baocheng Railway running from Baoji in Shaanxi province to Chengdu.
Mianyang Nanjiao Airport, which is the second largest airport in Sichuan province, has direct flights to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Shenzhen, Kunming, Hangzhou, and so on.
Both G5 Beijing–Kunming Expressway and G93 Chengyu Ring Expressway passed through the city.

Economy

Mianyang is one of China's major centres for the electronics industry. It has many well-known research institutions, such as the China Academy of Engineering Physics and China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center.
Many large-scale enterprises, such as Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., Ltd., Sichuan DND Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Jiuzhou Electronics Group, Shuangma Cement Group, and Changcheng Special Steel Company also have their home in Mianyang. Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., Ltd. was China's largest television manufacturer in 2004, and majority-owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan. The company provided two-thirds of the city of Mianyang's revenue, and its chairman and managing director Zhao Yong was until late 2004 the city's deputy mayor.
Mianyang is an important national defence, scientific research, and production base, consisting of 18 institutes including the China Academy of Engineering Physics and the China Aerodynamics Research Institute. Moreover, it houses 50 large- and medium-size enterprises and six science colleges.
The provincial government will hand over greater administrative powers of economic management at the provincial-level authority to propel the development of Mianyang. The new economy management authority will pay close attention to the construction of the scientific city. The provincial committee party and government are presently drafting the "Opinions on Propelling China Scientific City Construction" report which is expected to come out soon.

Mianyang Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone

Regional Nuclear Medical Imaging Data Center

As a hub for China's science and technology industry, Mianyang has established a regional Nuclear Medical Imaging Data Center. This facility aggregates and anonymizes medical imaging data from participating hospitals, supporting AI-assisted diagnostics and large-scale medical research while ensuring strict data security and patient privacy protocols.

Education

There are many universities and colleges in the city, and it is well known as a science and technology centre.
The best known of these is Southwest University of Science and Technology, with a campus of. There is a wide-band multimedia campus network, which is connected to the Internet. The student dorm has access to telephone, Internet, and TV. There are over 900,000 copies of books and over 10,000 electronic books in the library. The studying and living facilities are all on the campus.

Higher education

  • Tianfu College, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics The school now has four campuses in Chengdu, Deyang, and Mianyang, covering a total area of 1,967 acres.
  • Mianyang Normal University As of September 2023, the school has three campuses: Gaoxin Campus, Youxian Campus and Fenggu Campus. The campus covers an area of nearly 2,000 acres and has a construction area of nearly 500,000 square meters.
  • Mianyang Vocational and Technical College, As of June 2023, the school covers an area of 860.08 acres, with a school building area of 341,000 square meters and a total fixed asset value of 630 million yuan, including 15,700 sets of teaching experimental training equipment, 983,800 paper books in the library, and 612,000 electronic books; it has 8 secondary teaching units, 2 undergraduate majors and 40 junior college majors; there are 802 in-service faculty and staff, 239 senior professional titles, and 335 master's degrees and above; higher vocational, secondary vocational, applied undergraduate,
  • Tianfu College of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, According to the school's official website in June 2024, the school has four campuses in Chengdu, Deyang and Mianyang, covering an area of 1,909 acres; it has 9 secondary colleges, offering 43 undergraduate majors and 30 junior college majors; there are 1,413 faculty and staff and 32,880 students; the library has 1.54 million paper books and more than 1.21 million electronic books.,
  • Sichuan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, According to the information on the school's official website in June 2024, the school covers an area of nearly 1,000 acres; it has 12 colleges and departments, offering 30 higher vocational majors; it has 534 full-time teachers and nearly 10,000 students.
  • City College of Southwest University of Science and Technology, As of March 2024, the school has two campuses, Anzhou and Youxian, with a planned area of 1,200 acres, a completed and planned building area of nearly 630,000 square meters, teaching and scientific research equipment worth about 106 million yuan, and a total of more than 3.7 million books and resources of various types; there are 7 secondary colleges, a total of 70 undergraduate and junior college majors; there are 23,000 students.
  • Sichuan College of Culture and Art, The predecessor is the Mianyang Art College of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, a secondary college of Sichuan Conservatory of Music. As of September 2024, the school has two campuses in Mianyang and Zitong;it has 17 secondary colleges, 46 undergraduate majors, 34 junior college majors, 3 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites; and more than 20,000 full-time students.
  • China Academy of Engineering Physics Staff College, Founded in 1978, it is an adult higher education institution established by the China Academy of Engineering Physics, the only strategic weapons research and development unit in my country, with the approval of the Ministry of Education.Before 2004, it was mainly engaged in adult higher education. Mr. Yu Daguang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, served as the second president of the college and is now the honorary president.
  • Mianyang Branch of Civil Aviation Flight Academy. The Mianyang Branch of the Civil Aviation Flight University of China is located in Mianyang, the second largest city in Sichuan Province, which is famous as "the birthplace of Li Bai and China's Science and Technology City".It is 5 kilometers away from the city center at a true position of 167 degrees. It is a training branch engaged in civil aviation transport aircraft pilot training that integrates flight teaching training and air transport flight. The branch has the training capabilities of "commercial pilot license", additional instrument rating and "private pilot license".
  • Sichuan Preschool Teachers College.According to the school's official website in June 2024, the school has three campuses in Mianyang and Jiangyou, covering an area of more than 970 acres and a construction area of 262,700 square meters; it has 7 teaching units and 24 majors; there are more than 11,000 students and 747 faculty and staff.
  • Sichuan Automotive Vocational and Technical College, According to the school's official website in May 2024, the school covers an area of 998 acres, with a building area of 163,112 square meters; the library has a collection of 565,000 books and teaching equipment worth 60.4166 million yuan; it has 5 secondary colleges and offers 33 higher vocational majors.
  • Sichuan Electronic Machinery Vocational and Technical College, As of December 2023, the school covers an area of 270,013.5 square meters, with a total building area of 278,485.37 square meters, 172,030.24 square meters of teaching, scientific research and auxiliary rooms, a total value of scientific research equipment assets of 51.6959 million yuan, and 956,700 paper books; it has 6 secondary colleges, 34 majors ; there are 361 full-time teachers and 10,077 full-time junior college students.
  • Mianyang Youth Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School, Mianyang Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School was founded in 1993. It is a private secondary vocational school approved by the Mianyang Municipal Education Administrative Department.