Post by
ozzy5 on Apr 13, 2011 5:38am
YHCC (China) and APNT
Ni Hao !
YHCC is near Mianyang, in Sichuan Province. Mianyang city metro area has a population of about 5 million.
Mianyang is about 100 km (62 miles) NE of Chengdu, which is a huge city of 11 million people. Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan. Many large multi-national companies have offices/manufacturing in Chengdu. Intel, AMD, Cisco, IBM, Nokia, Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase, Ernst and Young, etc.
Mianyang and Chengdu are both located in a known earthquake zone.
It is a region where 2 Tectonic Plates (Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate) are pushing against each other. The big quake in 2008 didn't cause massive damage in the two cities, because most modern buildings are engineered to withstand an 8.0 earthquake.
It will be interesting to see what a Mianyang/Austin collaboration will produce.