Mianyang is already well connected by both highway and rail, with more transportation networks currently under construction.
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Rescue teams brought people evacuated from the hard-hit town of Beichuan to Mianyang's sports stadium for food and shelter.
Over 18 research institutes are located in Mianyang, including the China Academy of Engineering Physics and the China Aerodynamics Research Institute.
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Mianyang is the only city in Sichuan Province, besides Chengdu, to receive State Council approval to develop as a million-plus population city.
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Mianyang has gained its reputation as a technology center due to its importance as a base for national defense, scientific research and production.
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The current trip between Chengdu and Mianyang takes approximately 2.5 hours, but the new urban rail will reduce travel time to just 15 to 20 minutes.
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As these trends continue to play out in the years ahead, names like Mianyang will soon become household words, just like Chicago, Minneapolis and Atlanta are today.
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The state's Xinhua News Agency said nearly 19, 000 people were still buried in debris in and around Mianyang, a city about 60 miles east of the epicenter.
So, I followed up by explaining that Mianyang is the second-largest city in Sichuan with a population of over 5 million, almost as many people who live in Manhattan.
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At Mianyang, a big city close to Jiangyou, police erected barricades on an approach road to a stadium sheltering some 20, 000 refugees, to prevent its being clogged by volunteer vehicles.
Important cities, like Mianyang, are classified as Tier 3, and many analysts carry the classifications further and use Tier 4 to denote cities that are large and important by any standard, but are even less well known.
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"The number of collapsed buildings this time is less, and most are old houses that were built long before, " added Wang Ruheng, dean of the school of civil engineering and architecture at Southwest University of Science and Technology in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province.
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