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Lianghekou hydroelectric plant
Lianghekou hydroelectric plant (两河口混合式抽水蓄能电站) is a 3,000 MW station on the Yalong River in Sichuan, China, being expanded with 1,200 MW of pumped storage for 4,200 MW combined.
Lianghuai salt administration
The Lianghuai salt administration (两淮盐政) was the Qing office overseeing the salt trade across central China, whose tax supplied up to 64.5 percent of national salt revenue.
Liangjia
Liangjia, better known as Dongshan Liangjie (Japanese Tōzan Ryōkai), was a Tang-dynasty Chan Buddhist master (807–869) who founded the Caodong lineage, one of the five houses of Chan, which became Sōtō Zen in Japan.
Liangshan Yizu Zizhizhou
Liangshan Yizu Zizhizhou (凉山彝族自治州, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture) is a Yi autonomous prefecture in southwestern Sichuan, seat Xichang, founded 1952, China's largest Yi community with 3.04 million Yi people.
Liangshu
Liangshu (梁书, Book of Liang) is a Chinese dynastic history of the Southern Liang dynasty, completed by Yao Cha and Yao Silian in 636 under the Tang.
Liangyou Rui
Liangyou Rui is a molecular physiologist at the University of Michigan Medical School known for research on SH2B1 and NIK signaling in obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease.
Liangyu Zhang
Liangyu Zhang is a cell biologist who studies chromosome dynamics during cell division, known for adapting the auxin-inducible degradation (AID) system for protein depletion in the nematode C. elegans.
Liangzhou Botanical Garden
Liangzhou Botanical Garden (凉州植物园), a garden-style park in Liangzhou District, Wuwei, Gansu, China; also called the Walnut Garden. 65-hectare AAA attraction of century-old walnut and pear trees, tea gardens, and the 128-meter Eye of the Heavenly Horse Ferris wheel.
Liangzhou Song
The Liangzhou Song, also Liangzhou Ci or Chusai, is a pair of seven-character quatrains by Tang poet Wang Zhihuan, whose famous first poem laments frontier soldiers at Yumen Pass.
Liangzhu jade
Liangzhu jade is the nephrite jade made by the Neolithic Liangzhu culture of the lower Yangtze valley, c. 3300–2250 BCE, best known for its bi discs and cong tubes.
Lianhe Chuangtai (联合创泰)
Lianhe Chuangtai Technology Co., Limited (联合创泰) is a Hong Kong electronic components distributor of SK Hynix memory and MediaTek chips, wholly owned by Shannon Semiconductor since 2021.
Lianhua Qingke tablets
Lianhua Qingke tablets (连花清咳片), a 15-herb Chinese patent medicine by Yiling Pharmaceutical approved in China in May 2020 for acute tracheobronchitis cough with phlegm-heat obstructing lung syndrome; medical insurance Category B, OTC, Singapore-registered.
Lianjiang
Lianjiang (廉江市, also Lianjiang City) is a county-level city under Zhanjiang, Guangdong, on the northern Leizhou Peninsula bordering Guangxi and Beibu Gulf; 2,835 km², about 1.87 million registered residents, red-orange farming and small-appliance industry.
Lianju
Lianju (联句, pinyin liánjù) is a classical Chinese form of collaborative poetry in which two or more poets compose one poem, each contributing lines in turn.
Lianjun (Discipline-and-Drill Forces)
The Lianjun (练军, Discipline-and-Drill Forces) were Qing provincial units chosen from Green Standard soldiers but organized and drilled on Xiang Army lines, beginning in the Xianfeng era.
Lianlian Digital
Lianlian Digital, known as LianLian DigiTech, is a Hangzhou-based digital payment solutions provider founded in 2009 by Zhang Zhengyu, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since 2024.
Lianmei Quantum (联美控股)
Lianmei Quantum (联美控股) is a Shenyang-based Chinese company controlled by the Su family, providing clean heating in Shenyang and high-speed-rail digital media advertising through its listed subsidiary Zhaoxun Media.
Lianne La Havas
Lianne La Havas, born Lianne Charlotte Barnes in 1989, is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist from London known for blending soul, folk, jazz, and R&B.
Lianpu Yin
连朴饮 (Lianpu Yin), a seven-herb Qing dynasty formula from Wang Mengying's Huolun Lun, clears damp-heat in the middle burner; originally for huoluo, now used for gastritis, ulcer, and reflux esophagitis.
Lianshan, Liaoning
Lianshan District (连山区) is the main urban district of Huludao, Liaoning, China, established in 1989 from former Jinxi City; 468,110 residents at the 2020 census, molybdenum mining, and the Tashan Blocking Battle memorial site.
Lianyuan
Lianyuan (联元), courtesy name Xianheng, was a Manchu Plain Red Banner Qing official who was executed in 1900 for opposing war during the Boxer crisis.
Lianyungang (连云港)
Lianyungang (连云港), a prefecture-level port city in northeastern Jiangsu, China; also historically Haizhou. Eastern terminus of the Longhai Railway and New Eurasian Land Bridge; 5.27 million people, 367 million tons port throughput, Huaguo Mountain tourism.
Lianzhou Wang
Lianzhou Wang (王连洲, born 1971) is a Chinese-born Australian materials scientist who set a 2020 quantum dot solar cell efficiency record and chairs energy materials research at Hong Kong PolyU.
Liao Campaign against Goryeo
The Liao Campaign against Goryeo (遼麗戰爭) was a series of Khitan-led Liao dynasty invasions of the Korean kingdom of Goryeo in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
Liao dynasty
Liao dynasty (遼朝), Khitan Empire, 907–1125: steppe empire founded by Abaoji ruling Mongolia and north China via dual northern/southern administrations; Chanyuan Treaty parity with Song; fell to Jurchen Jin; successor Qara Khitai in Central Asia.
Liao dynasty Buddhist sculpture
Liao dynasty Buddhist sculpture is Buddhist statuary made in China from 916 to 1125 under the Khitan-ruled Liao dynasty, known for painted clay temple statues.
Liao Gang
Liao Gang (廖刚, 1071–1143) was a Song dynasty official from Shunchang, Fujian, who served as Vice Censor-in-chief and Minister of Works and spoke out against Cai Jing and Qin Hui.
Liao gilt-bronze crown and mask set
The Liao gilt-bronze crown and mask set is the metal funeral crown and face mask buried on Khitan nobles of the Liao dynasty (916–1125), best known from the Princess of Chen's tomb.
Liao He
Liao He (辽河, Liao River), river and FEOW freshwater ecoregion 637 in Liaoning and Jilin, China; temperate floodplain system draining to Korea Bay and Bohai Sea, 3 endemic fishes, large delta wetlands, Ramsar site since 2004.
Liao Hua
Liao Hua (廖化), courtesy name Yuanjian, was a Shu Han general of the Three Kingdoms period who served from Guan Yu's staff through Shu's fall, dying at Luoyang in 264.