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Jianwen New Policies
The Jianwen New Policies (建文新政) were the reforms of Ming emperor Zhu Yunwen's reign, 1398 to 1402, which relaxed Hongwu-era laws and provoked civil war.
Jianwen-era Yellow River and fiscal leniency edicts
The Jianwen-era Yellow River and fiscal leniency edicts (建文宽政诏) were proclamations by which the Jianwen emperor of Ming China, from 1398, remitted Jiangnan land taxes and eased harsh Hongwu-era punishments.
Jianxin Coal (建新煤化)
Jianxin Coal, or Shaanxi Jianxin Coal Chemical Co., is a Chinese coal mining company incorporated in 2008 in Huangling County, Yan'an, Shaanxi, operating the Jianxin Coal Mine.
Jianxin Yuanli (健新原力)
Jianxin Yuanli (健新原力), formally Zhejiang Jianxin Yuanli Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., was a Hangzhou contract manufacturer for cell and gene therapies that entered bankruptcy liquidation in 2025.
Jianyan Yilai Jinian Yaolu
Jianyan Yilai Jinian Yaolu (建炎以来系年要录) is a 200-juan annalistic chronicle of Emperor Gaozong's reign, compiled by the Song historian Li Xinchuan and covering 1127 to 1162.
Jianye
Jianye, formally Central China Real Estate Limited (建业地产), is a Chinese property developer founded by Hu Baosen in 1992 and concentrated almost entirely on Henan province, listing in Hong Kong in 2008.
Jianye Chemical (浙江建业化工股份有限公司)
Jianye Chemical (Zhejiang Jianye Chemical Co.) is a Chinese fine-chemicals producer in Jiande, Zhejiang, making low-carbon amines, plasticizers, and electronic chemicals, listed in Shanghai since 2020.
Jianyong Ouyang
Jianyong Ouyang is a professor of materials science and engineering at the National University of Singapore, known for the 2004 polymer memory paper and record-setting thermoelectric materials.
Jianyuan Technology (箭元科技)
Jianyuan Technology (箭元科技) is a Chinese private launch-vehicle developer founded in 2022 in Beijing by former CASC engineers, preparing the orbital first flight of its reusable Yuanxingzhe No.1 rocket.
Jianzhen
Jianzhen (鑑真) was a Tang dynasty Chinese Buddhist monk who reached Japan in 753 after five failed attempts, founded Tōshōdai-ji in Nara, and established formal ordination there.
Jianzhi Sengcan (鉴智僧璨)
Jianzhi Sengcan (鉴智僧璨) is the monk counted as the Third Chinese Patriarch of Chan (Zen), between Huike and Daoxin, and the traditional author of the Xinxin ming.
Jianzhong Wu
Jianzhong Wu is a professor of chemical engineering at UC Riverside who works on classical density functional theory, applied to energy storage and electrocatalysis, and is a fellow of APS, AIChE, and AIMBE.
Jianzhou Jurchens
Jianzhou Jurchens (建州女真), southernmost of the three Ming-recorded Jurchen divisions of Manchuria alongside Haixi and Yeren; sedentary farmers, ginseng and horse traders under the Ming wei system; Nurhaci's Jianzhou branch founded Later Jin and the Qing.
Jiao Ge Waimai
Jiao Ge Waimai (叫个外卖) was a Chinese food-delivery O2O venture founded in Changsha, Hunan in 2014, which sold its own standardized fast food and closed in 2015–2016.
Jiao Hong
Jiao Hong (焦竑, courtesy name Ruohou, 1541–1620) was a Ming dynasty scholar and official who placed first in the 1589 palace examination and lectured the emperor's eldest son.
Jiao Liuyang
Jiao Liuyang (焦刘洋), Chinese butterfly swimmer born 1991 in Harbin; 2008 Olympic silver and 2012 Olympic gold in the 200 m butterfly (2:04.06, Olympic record), plus world-record medley relay and four Asian Games golds.
Jiao Tong
Jiao Tong (焦桐) is the pen name of Ye Zhen-fu, a Taiwanese poet, essayist, editor, and professor born in Kaohsiung in 1956, known for establishing and promoting dietary literature.
Jiao Xun
Jiao Xun (焦循, 1763–1820) was a Qing dynasty classicist from Ganquan, Yangzhou, who became a juren in 1801, never held office, and wrote the Yi tongshi and Mengzi zhengyi.
Jiaochao (Jin paper currency)
Jiaochao (交鈔) was the paper currency of the Jin dynasty, issued by the Bureau of Cash Exchange and circulating alongside copper coin until devaluations destroyed its value.
Jiaoheng
Jiaoheng (教亨, 1150–1219) was a Chan Buddhist monk of China's Jin dynasty who led five major monasteries, including the Shaolin Temple, and died at seventy in 1219.
Jiaoshi Yilin
Jiaoshi Yilin (焦氏易林, Forest of Changes of the Jiao Family) is a Han-era Chinese divination manual, traditionally attributed to the Western Han diviner Jiao Yanshou, that expands the Yijing's 64 hexagrams into 4,096 four-character rhymed verses.
Jiaozhou
Jiaozhou (胶州市) is a county-level city of Qingdao, Shandong, on Jiaozhou Bay; established 1987 from Jiao County, about 1.05 million people, a national development zone, and a rail-port hub.
Jiaozi (director)
Jiaozi, the professional name of Yang Yu (born 1980), is a Chinese animation director from Luzhou, Sichuan, known for directing Ne Zha (2019) and Ne Zha 2 (2025).
Jiaozi (饺子)
Jiaozi (饺子, 餃子) are Chinese dumplings of thin unleavened wheat wrappers around meat or vegetable filling, boiled, steamed, or pan-fried (guotie). Known by Han times as huntun, central to Lunar New Year, source of Japanese gyoza.
Jiaozi Office in Yizhou
The Jiaozi Office in Yizhou (益州交子务) was a Song dynasty bureau founded at Chengdu in 1023 whose jiaozi notes were the first paper currency issued by a state.
Jiaozuo
Jiaozuo (焦作) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Henan, between the Taihang Mountains and the Yellow River; former coal city turned tourism and logistics hub, birthplace of Taijiquan, population about 3.47 million.
Jiaozuo Aluminum power station
Jiaozuo Aluminum power station (焦作铝业自备电厂) is a captive coal-fired power station of at least 970 MW in Jiaozuo, Henan, China, supplying heat and electricity to the adjacent aluminum smelter.
Jiaozuo Bo'ai power station
Jiaozuo Bo'ai power station, also called Jiaozuo Longyuan power plant, is a coal-fired power station in Bo'ai County, Jiaozuo, Henan, China, owned by China Resources Power.
Jiaozuo Danhe power station
Jiaozuo Danhe power station (国家电投焦作丹河电发厂) is a coal-fired power station in Qinyang, Jiaozuo, Henan, China, operated by State Power Investment Corporation with two 1,000 MW ultra-supercritical units commissioned in 2019 and 2020.
Jiaqing Emperor (嘉庆帝)
Jiaqing Emperor (嘉庆帝, Aisin Gioro Yongyan, 1760–1820), fifth Qing emperor over China proper, reigned 1796–1820 under his father Qianlong's tutelage until 1799, executed Heshen, fought the costly White Lotus War, and pursued fiscal austerity.