Guangyuan

Proper noun

Guangyuan

1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
   • The People’s Republic began its campaign to separate the Chinese church from Rome on November 30, 1950. The national Catholic Three Self Movement started in Kuangyuan, a town of northern Szechwan.[1980, Eric O. Hanson, “Confrontation at the National Level: Relations between the People's Republic of China and the Catholic Church, 1949-1962”, in Catholic Politics in China and Korea (American...
   • China’s main complex for making nuclear warhead fuel, codenamed Plant 821, is beside a river in a hilly, forested part of the earthquake zone. It is some 15 miles northwest of Guangyuan in Sichuan Province.2008 May 16, William Broad, “Western Experts Monitor China’s Nuclear Sites for Signs of Earthquake Damage”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...