[3] Located in north-central Sichuan covering an area of 20,281 square kilometres (7,831 sq mi) consisting of Jiangyou, a county-level city, five counties, and three urban districts.

[4] Its total population was 4,868,243 people at the 2020 Chinese census, of whom 2,232,865 live in its built-up (or metro) area made of three urban districts.

Due to its advantageous location, it had always been a town of great military importance and formed a natural defence for Chengdu.

[6] 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.

[10][11] Mianyang is at the northwestern end of the Sichuan Basin, on the upper to middle reaches of the Fu River.

[22] The provincial government will hand over greater administrative powers of economic management at the provincial-level authority to propel the development of Mianyang.

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.

[24] It is the hometown of the famous poet Li Bai, and boasts many historical relics of the Three Kingdoms period.

In his "The Transmission of Foreign Medicine via the Silk Roads in Medieval China: A Case Study of Haiyao Bencao", Chen Ming states that he is "inclined to agree with Lo Hsiang-lin, and to conclude that Li Xun was probably a Nestorian who was influenced by Taoism".

[58] Li Bifeng is a democracy advocate and a house church Christian, founder of an organization of conscience-based care for conducting written reports on the living conditions of laid-off workers, women, and children.

[61] Chinese food blogger and internet celebrity Li Ziqi is from Pingwu County on Mianyang and shoots most of her video content in the surrounding countryside.

Lucy Yi Zhenmei, a 19th-century local missionary from Mianyang, was martyred in Guizhou and canonized on 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II.

Mianyang region was historically part of the MEP's Western Szechwan Mission, and is now under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Chengdu.

[81] In the late 1880s, two women representing the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society were working in this city.

[83] In 1918, Alfred Arthur Phillips established the first school for the dumb and the blind in Sichuan at Huang Family's Alley, Fucheng District.

[84] Frederick Boreham, future Archdeacon of Cornwall, served as a missionary in Mianyang (Mien Yong) under the CMS from 1917 to 1924, and again from 1928 to 1934.

[86] Santai County (formerly known as Tungchwan, pinyin: Tongchuan) was a centre of Quakerism, which was introduced in 1887,[87] and again in 1894 by Friends' Foreign Mission Association (FFMA).

[89] Since 1942, the Seventh-day Adventist Church had a small presence in Fenggu [zh], a town under the administration of Fucheng.

It is made of wheat flour, lard, white sugar, sesame and other raw materials by traditional handicraft.