Mianyang

• Mienyang (Postal Romanization)
• Mien-yang (Wade–Giles)

• enPR: myěnʹyängʹ

From Mandarin 綿陽／绵阳 (Miányáng).

Mianyang

1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
   • 2008 May 29, Tyra Dempster, “Chinese battle quake lake amid official confusion”, in Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 08 May 2022, World News‎^[2]:

     The state Xinhua news agency said Tan Li, Communist Party chief of Mianyang in the quake zone, ordered 1.3 million people downstream from Tangjiashan to “evacuate to higher ground”.
     But Zhou Hua, a Mianyang official who is a spokesman for the lake relief effort, told Reuters that report was “mistaken”.

From Mandarin 沔陽／沔阳 (Miǎnyáng).

Mianyang

1. (historical) A county of Hubei, China; present-day Xiantao.
   • 1996, Dali L. Yang, “Rural Liberalization”, in Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Forward, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 74:

     In particular, the communist wind of ‘one, equalization, two, transfer” (yiping erdiao) continued to blow in many areas, and land set aside for peasant cultivation (ziliudi) was still being made collective. One outstanding example of such abuses was Tonghaikou commune in Hubei’s Mianyang county: 41 county-level organizations and 25 commune-level enterprises made outright requisitions from production brigades and teams, which in turn preyed on peasants, taking property ranging from land and houses to sickles and chopsticks.