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Qianjin Ancient City Site
前进古城址 (Qianjin Ancient City Site), a Liao-Jin era fortified stronghold on Dongmiaoling, Zhangguangcai Range, Jiaohe, Jilin; defensive wall about 1,189 m plus a two-part garrison city; seventh-batch national heritage site (2013).
Qianlong court Buddhist art
Qianlong court Buddhist art is the Tibetan Buddhist painting, sculpture, and architecture produced by the Qing imperial court under the Qianlong Emperor, who reigned 1736 to 1795.
Qianlong Emperor (乾隆帝)
Qianlong Emperor (乾隆帝), Aisin-Gioro Hongli, 1711–1799, Qing emperor of the High Qing; reigned 1736–1795, abdicated to honor Kangxi, led the Ten Great Campaigns, compiled the Siku Quanshu, and presided over late-reign corruption under Heshen.
Qianlong jade carving
Qianlong jade carving (乾隆玉雕) is the Qing court's jade production during the Qianlong Emperor's reign, 1735 to 1796, considered the most glorious period of Chinese jade carving.
Qianxi power station
Qianxi power station (黔西电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Gantang Town, Bijie, Guizhou, China, with five units totaling 1,860 MW commissioned from 2005 to 2017.
Qianxiang Asset
Qianxiang Asset (千象资产), formally Shanghai Qianxiang Asset Management, is a quantitative private fund manager founded in Shanghai in 2014, among China's largest CTA managed futures managers.
Qianxin (奇安信)
Qianxin (奇安信), formally Qianxin Technology Group Co., Ltd., is a Beijing enterprise cybersecurity company founded in 2014 and listed on the Shanghai STAR Market in 2020.
Qianxun Intelligence (千寻智能)
Qianxun Intelligence (千寻智能) is a Chinese embodied-intelligence startup founded in Hangzhou in January 2024, developing humanoid robots and embodied large models such as its Moz1 humanoid.
Qianxun SI (千寻位置)
Qianxun SI (千寻位置) is a Shanghai-based company founded in 2015 as a joint venture of Norinco and Alibaba that operates China's national BeiDou ground augmentation system, giving machines centimeter-level positioning.
Qianyin (Sichuan paper currency)
Qianyin (川引), or cash notes, was the paper currency of Song-dynasty Sichuan, created from the jiaozi and replaced after about 150 years by the Sichuan huizi.
Qianyuan zhongbao
Qianyuan zhongbao (乾元重宝) was a large Tang dynasty copper coin first cast in 758 under Emperor Suzong, worth ten old coins, whose overvaluation caused severe inflation.
Qianzheng San
牵正散 (Qianzheng San, Face-Correcting Powder) is a classical Chinese medicine formula of baifuzi, baijiangcan, and quanxie in equal parts, first recorded in Yang Tan's Southern Song Yangshi Jiacang Fang, used for wind-phlegm facial deviation and listed in China's 2023 classic formula catalogue.
Qianzhousaurus (虔州龙)
Qianzhousaurus (虔州龙), nicknamed Pinocchio rex, is a long-snouted tyrannosaurid dinosaur from the Maastrichtian of Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China, described in 2014; its ~70%-of-skull snout established the Asian alioramin clade Alioramini.
Qiao Guanhua
Qiao Guanhua (乔冠华) was a Chinese diplomat and journalist who served as foreign minister from 1974 to 1976 and led China's first UN delegation in 1971.
Qiao Hong
Qiao Hong (乔红), born 1968 in Wuhan, China, is a former table tennis player: four Olympic medals including women's doubles gold in 1992 and 1996 with Deng Yaping, 1989 world singles champion, later a Chinese national team coach.
Qiao Ji
Qiao Ji (乔吉, c. 1280 – 1345) was a Yuan dynasty playwright and sanqu writer from Taiyuan who lived in Hangzhou, known for the maxim "phoenix head, pig belly, leopard tail."
Qiao Shi
Qiao Shi (乔石), born Jiang Zhitong, was a Chinese Communist Party leader who served on the Politburo Standing Committee and chaired the Eighth National People's Congress.
Qiao Zhou
Qiao Zhou, known as Joe Zhou, is an American stem cell biologist at Weill Cornell Medicine known for reprogramming pancreatic cells into insulin-producing beta cells.
Qiaoliang Bao
Qiaoliang Bao (鲍桥梁) is a materials scientist working on graphene and 2D material photonics, known for graphene saturable absorbers, polarizers, and anisotropic polaritons in molybdenum trioxide.
Qiaolin Deng
Qiaolin Deng is a developmental biologist at Karolinska Institutet who develops single-cell RNA sequencing methods and studies how maternal diabetes and PCOS affect offspring health.
Qiaopi (侨批)
Qiaopi (侨批) are letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances, carried by private bureaus from Southeast Asia to villages in Guangdong and Fujian until 1979.
Qiaotou power station
Qiaotou power station is a 1,980 MW coal-fired power station in Qiaotou Town, Xining, Qinghai, China, founded in 1956 and rebuilt with ultra-supercritical units reaching full capacity in 2026.
Qibao
Qibao (七宝) is a historic canal town in Minhang District, Shanghai, named for its Seven Treasures temple, liberated May 15, 1949, and now a metro-accessible food and folk-culture destination.
Qibao Old Town
Qibao Old Town (七宝古镇), also called Qibao Ancient Town, is a historic Jiangnan canal water town in Shanghai's Minhang district, about 20 km southwest of the city center.
Qibie Heli
Qibie Heli (契苾何力) was a Tang dynasty general of steppe origin who came to China in 632 and served Taizong and Gaozong for over four decades.
Qibin Qi
Qibin Qi is a molecular and genetic epidemiologist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, known for gene–diet interaction studies of obesity and diabetes.
Qibing Pei
Qibing Pei (裴启兵) is a materials scientist known for dielectric elastomer artificial muscles and solid-state cooling, long a professor at UCLA and from 2026 at the University of Macau.
Qibla (قبلة)
The qibla (قبلة) is the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca toward which Muslims face in formal prayer, changed from Jerusalem in year 2 after the Hijrah.
Qibla compass
A qibla compass, also known as a qibla indicator, is a compass or electronic device that shows Muslims the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca for prayer.
QIC Private Equity Fund No. 6 (US private equity vehicle)
QIC Private Equity Fund No. 6 is a United States private equity fund vehicle of QIC's private equity arm, reporting $250.8 million sold to 3 investors in 2017.