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Gao Yingxiang

Gao Yingxiang (高迎祥), a horse thief from Ansai, was a leading rebel commander of the late Ming dynasty who proclaimed himself Chuangwang, the Dashing King, and was executed in 1636.

Gao Yongnian

Gao Yongnian (高永年) was a Song-dynasty military commander of non-Han origin from Hedong who fought in the Qingtang campaigns and died in a Qiang ambush in 1105.

Gao You

Gao You (高诱) was an Eastern Han scholar whose commentaries on the Huainanzi, Lüshi Chunqiu, and Zhanguoce are among the most extensive Han annotations to survive.

Gao Yuanyuan (高圆圆)

Gao Yuanyuan (高圆圆, Yuanyuan Gao), Chinese actress born 1979 in Beijing; began as a 1996 commercial model, known for Beijing Bicycle, Shanghai Dreams, City of Life and Death, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, and married to Mark Chao.

Gao Yun

Gao Yun (高允), courtesy name Bogong, was a Northern Wei scholar-official who served five rulers for over fifty years and survived the Cui Hao history case.

Gao Yuncheng

Gao Yuncheng (高云程) is a Chinese fund manager who serves as managing partner and CEO of Greenwoods Asset Management, a contrarian value investor managing about US$20 billion.

Gao Yunfeng

Gao Yunfeng (高云峰), born in 1967, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Han's Laser in Shenzhen in 1996 and chairs the laser equipment maker, worth 15.5 billion yuan in 2026.

Gaochang

高昌故城 (Gaochang), also Idikut-shahri, a ruined earthen Silk Road city 30-40 km east of Turpan, Xinjiang; Han garrison, Gaochang kingdom and Qocho Uyghur capital, Tang Xizhou seat; UNESCO World Heritage 2014.

Gaoche revolt against the Rouran

The Gaoche revolt against the Rouran was the 487 secession of the Gaoche Fufuluo tribe, led by the chiefs Afuzhiluo and Qiongqi, which founded an independent Gaoche State near Turfan.

Gaoche Tribes

The Gaoche Tribes (高车) were a polity of the Chile on the Mongolian steppe, founded in 487 by Afuzhiluo near Anterior Jushi after rebelling against Rouran rule.

Gaofen

Gaofen (高分, "high resolution") is a Chinese series of high-resolution Earth observation satellites and the space-based component of CHEOS, launched since Gaofen-1 in 2013 for disaster, agriculture, and mapping uses.

Gaojing

Gaojing (高景, "high resolution view"), marketed internationally as SuperView, is a Chinese commercial high-resolution Earth observation satellite series owned by China Siwei, launched from 2016 and delivering sub-meter imagery.

Gaojing Solar

Gaojing Solar (高景太阳能) is a Chinese manufacturer of monocrystalline silicon rods and wafers for solar panels, founded in Zhuhai, Guangdong in 2019 and backed by IDG Capital and Zhuhai Huafa Group.

Gaokao (高考)

Gaokao (高考), formally the National Unified Examination for Admissions to General Universities and Colleges, is China's standardized university entrance exam held each June 7-9; first held in 1952, suspended in 1966, restored in 1977, and reformed since 2014 under 3+3 or 3+1+2 subject models.

Gaokao Benchmark

The Gaokao benchmark (GAOKAO-Bench) is an evaluation suite testing large language models on questions from China's National College Entrance Examination, built by OpenLMLab at Fudan University in May 2023.

Gaoligong Mountain Botanical Garden

Gaoligong Mountain Botanical Garden (高黎贡山植物园), a botanical garden in Tengchong, Baoshan, Yunnan, on Huayan Road, about 169.2 mu, plus a 98.31-million-yuan rare-endemic plant garden project with 11 specialized gardens.

Gaoligong mountains Biosphere Reserve

Gaoligong Mountains Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve (2000) in western Yunnan, China; 293,564 ha, Gawagapu Peak 5,126 m, 4,897 higher plant species, 699 vertebrates, part of the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage site.

Gaomi

Gaomi (高密市) is a county-level city in eastern Shandong, China, under Weifang; Qin-era county, 858,000 residents (2024), manufacturing hub, home of Nobel laureate Mo Yan and four national folk-arts heritages.

Gaomi Gucheng Yizhi

高密故城遗址 (Gaomi Gucheng Yizhi), also called the Chengyin city site, is an Eastern Zhou to Eastern Han walled-city site in Gaomi, Shandong; seat of Qin-Han Gaomi, Han Gaomi state seat, and Zheng Xuan's home region, listed in the 8th batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 2019.

Gaon Chart

Gaon Chart (가온차트), renamed the Circle Chart in July 2022, is South Korea's officially recognized national music chart, launched in 2010 to track album sales, downloads, and streaming.

Gaoping, Sichuan

Gaoping (高坪区) is a district of Nanchong, Sichuan, on the east bank of the Jialing River; 806 km², about 600,000 people, created 1993 from Nanchong County, home of Gaoping Airport and a distinct same-named town in Guanghan.

Gaorong Capital

Gaorong Capital, formerly Banyan Capital, is a Chinese venture capital firm founded in 2014 by three ex-IDG partners, best known for its early bet on Pinduoduo.

Gaoshiti Gas Field

Gaoshiti Gas Field (高石梯气田) is a natural gas field in the central Sichuan Basin, China, producing from the Sinian Dengying Formation with breakthrough well Gaoshi-1 in 2011.

Gaotu Techedu

Gaotu Techedu, formerly GSX Techedu (跟谁学), is a Chinese online education company founded by Chen Xiangdong in 2014, once a leading K-12 tutor before the 2021 regulatory changes affecting the tutoring industry.

Gaoussou Diarra

Gaoussou (Kyassou) Diarra, born 2002 in Bamako, is a Malian left winger who went from Haliç University student to İstanbulspor record sale (€3.8m) and Feyenoord and Mali player from 2025.

Gaozhou

Gaozhou (高州) is a county-level city of Maoming in southwestern Guangdong, China, with about 1.29 million people on 3,276 km². Known as China's lychee homeland, it plants over 59万亩 of lychee and hosts the national lychee germplasm repository.

Gaozong's flight by sea from the Jin invasion

Gaozong's flight by sea from the Jin invasion (航海避金) was Emperor Gaozong of Song's escape by ship along the Zhejiang coast, from late 1129 to spring 1130, to evade the Jurchen Jin army.

GAP (computer algebra system)

GAP (Groups, Algorithms and Programming) is a free, open-source, extensible system for computation in discrete abstract algebra, emphasizing computational group theory and used in research and teaching.

Gap acceptance theory

Gap acceptance theory is a traffic flow theory modeling how yielding drivers and pedestrians decide whether a gap in priority traffic allows entering, crossing, or merging.

Gap analysis

Gap analysis is a management technique that measures the difference between an organization's current state and its desired state, then produces prioritized actions to close the gap.