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Jitu Vaghani

Jitu Vaghani is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party, a Gujarat minister for agriculture, fisheries, animal husbandry, and cooperation who earlier served as education minister.

JiU (musician)

JiU (지유), birth name Kim Min-ji, is a South Korean singer born in 1994 who leads the rock-influenced girl group Dreamcatcher and joined its sub-unit UAU in 2025.

Jiu Jitsu (film)

Jiu Jitsu is a 2020 sci-fi martial arts film directed by Dimitri Logothetis, starring Alain Moussi, Nicolas Cage, Tony Jaa, and Frank Grillo, about fighters defending Earth from alien Brax every six years; shot in Cyprus, critically panned (Metascore 27).

Jiucheng Palace Inscription

The Jiucheng Palace Inscription (九成宫醴泉铭) is a 632 Tang dynasty stele with text by Wei Zheng and calligraphy by Ouyang Xun, still a model for regular script.

Jiuding Shan

Jiuding Shan (九顶山) is a mountain in Sichuan, China, and the highest peak of the Longmen Shan range at about 4,969 meters, within a nature reserve holding wild giant pandas.

Jiufotang Formation

Jiufotang Formation (九佛堂组), Lower Cretaceous lacustrine unit in western Liaoning, China, upper Jehol Group; deposited 124.44–112.25 Ma, hosts late Jehol Biota fossils including Microraptor and Jeholornis.

Jiuhuang bencao

Jiuhuang bencao (救荒本草) is a Ming dynasty illustrated treatise on edible wild plants for famine relief, compiled by Zhu Su, Prince Ding of Zhou, in the early fifteenth century.

Jiuhui Qu

Jiuhui Qu (曲久辉) is a Chinese environmental engineer specializing in water treatment, a distinguished professor at Tsinghua University elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Jiujiang (九江)

Jiujiang (九江), historically known as Kiukiang, is a prefecture-level city in northern Jiangxi, China, on the Yangtze River near Poyang Lake, with over 2,200 years of recorded history.

Jiuliu Bazhu

Jiuliu Bazhu (九流霸主, Jiu Liu Overlord) is a 2020 Chinese costume romantic comedy starring Bai Lu and Lai Yi, streamed on Tencent Video from October 23 to November 27, 2020, about a lower-tier gang leader and an upper-tier silk merchant who join forces over a gold-thread theft in late Tang Yincheng.

Jiulongshan Formation

The Jiulongshan Formation (九龙山组), called the Haifanggou Formation in Liaoning, is a Middle Jurassic rock unit in northeastern China, known for the fossil-rich Daohugou beds of the Yanliao Biota.

Jiun-Haw Chu

Jiun-Haw Chu is an experimental condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Washington, known for quantum materials research including 2D magnetism.

Jiuqiang Bio (九强生物)

Jiuqiang Bio (九强生物), formally Beijing Jiuqiang Biotechnology Co., Ltd., is a Beijing-based in-vitro diagnostics company founded in 2001 and listed on Shenzhen's ChiNext board since 2014.

Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group)

Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group), known as JISCO or Jiu Steel, is a Chinese state-owned steel producer in Jiayuguan, Gansu, founded in 1958 and the largest steel base in northwest China.

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心) is China's first spaceport, a military-run complex in the Gobi Desert that launched Dongfanghong-1 in 1970 and every Chinese crewed Shenzhou mission since 2003.

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心)

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心), China's first and largest launch base in the Gobi Desert, opened in 1958 and sent up China's first satellite in 1970.

Jiusan Society

The Jiusan Society (九三学社) is a minor political party in China, founded in Chongqing in 1946 by scientists and professors and named for Japan's surrender on 3 September 1945.

Jiuta Wainiqolo

Jiuta Naqoli Wainiqolo (born 1999) is a Fijian rugby union wing who won gold in men's rugby sevens at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as Fiji's top try scorer with five tries, then played for Toulon and Lyon OU in France's Top 14.

Jiutai

Jiutai (九台区) is a district of Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province in northeastern China, named for the ninth beacon platform on the seventeenth-century Willow Palisade.

Jiutai power station

Jiutai power station (华能九台发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Jiutai, Changchun, Jilin, China, with two 670 MW lignite units owned by Huaneng Power International, operating since 2009.

Jiutepec

Jiutepec (Xiutpec, Nahuatl for 'hill of precious stones') is a municipality in Morelos, Mexico, southeast of Cuernavaca; 215,357 inhabitants (2020), Tlahuica origins, conquered by Cortés in 1521, home of the CIVAC industrial park.

Jiuwei Zhike Oral Liquid

Jiuwei Zhike Oral Liquid (九味止咳口服液), a Category 1.1 innovative Chinese patent medicine approved in China in February 2024, treats wind-heat cough in acute tracheobronchitis; nine-herb formula by Yusen and Zhuohe Pharmaceutical, non-inferior to Jizhi syrup.

Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟)

Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), a UNESCO World Heritage valley of travertine lakes and waterfalls in Sichuan, China, inscribed 1992, a 1997 biosphere reserve, hit by the 2017 Ms 7.0 earthquake, capped at 41,000 visitors daily.

Jiuzhang (quantum computer)

Jiuzhang (九章) is a series of photonic quantum computers built at the University of Science and Technology of China, led by Jian-Wei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu, that demonstrate quantum advantage via Gaussian boson sampling.

Jiuzhitang

Jiuzhitang (九芝堂) is a traditional Chinese medicine producer based in Changsha, Hunan, listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since 2000, with a brand dating to 1650.

Jiuzhou Interstellar (九州星际) (Nanjing Jiuzhou Interstellar New Materials)

Jiuzhou Interstellar (九州星际) is a Chinese producer of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene fiber and composites based in Nanjing, which raised nearly RMB 1 billion in December 2025.

Jiuzhou Pharmaceutical

Jiuzhou Pharmaceutical (九洲药业) is a Chinese contract development and manufacturing organization founded in 1998 in Taizhou, Zhejiang, best known for supplying Novartis, its largest customer.

Jiuzhou Securities

Jiuzhou Securities (九州证券) was a Chinese securities firm based in Xining, Qinghai, known as China's first broker controlled by a private equity firm; it was renamed Huayuan Securities in 2023.

Jiuzhou Xingji New Materials (南京九州星际新材料有限公司)

Jiuzhou Xingji New Materials (南京九州星际新材料有限公司) is a Chinese producer of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fiber and composites, incorporated in Nanjing in 2022 and claiming the world's largest fiber capacity.

Jīva Gosvāmin

Jīva Gosvāmin (जीव गोस्वामिन्) was a sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava theologian and editor, one of the six Gosvāmins of Vṛndāvana, whose Ṣaṭ-sandarbha remains the tradition's systematic theology.