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Qincheng Site

秦城遗址 (Qincheng site): Qin-to-Jin era fortified settlement remains at Rongjiang, Xing'an County, Guangxi, a 2006 national key cultural relics protection unit (Ⅰ-172). Its Tongji city is the likely Qin garrison built during the Lingnan conquest; Qiliuwu Wangcheng was the Han Shian county seat.

Qinetiq

QinetiQ Group is a British defense and security company headquartered in Farnborough, England, created in 2001 from the privatization of most of the UK Ministry of Defence's DERA.

Qing conquest of the Chahar Mongols

The Qing conquest of the Chahar Mongols (1620s–1635) ended the last khanate ruled by a descendant of the Yuan emperors, bringing southern Mongolia under Manchu rule.

Qing conquest of the Dzungars

The Qing conquest of the Dzungars (平定准噶尔) was the Qing dynasty's eighteenth-century conquest of the Dzungar state of Inner Asia, with Ili taken and Dawachi captured in 1755.

Qing conquest of the Khalkha Mongols

The Qing conquest of the Khalkha Mongols brought northern Mongolia under Qing rule, formalized when the Khalkha princes submitted to the Kangxi Emperor at Dolon Nor in 1691.

Qing dynasty

Qing dynasty (Qing chao, 清朝), 1644–1911: China's last imperial dynasty, founded by the Manchus. Peak under Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong; Canton system, Opium Wars, and fall in 1911–1912.

Qing imperial painting academy

The Qing imperial painting academy was the Qing court's painting establishment, housed in the Ruyi Guan of the Imperial Workshops under the Kangxi through Qianlong emperors.

Qing Nie

Qing Nie is a computational and systems biologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for CellChat, an open-source tool inferring cell-cell communication from single-cell data.

Qing Ping Yue: Village Residence

"Qing Ping Yue: Village Residence" (清平乐·村居) is a 46-character rural ci by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, depicting an elderly couple and their three sons beside a stream.

Qing Qing Yi (Michael Nuoqing Yi)

Qing Qing Yi, also known as Michael Nuoqing Yi, is a Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer at Hillhouse Capital, leading its healthcare investing since 2005.

Qing reconquest of Xinjiang

The Qing reconquest of Xinjiang (清军收复新疆之战), also called Zuo Zongtang's recovery of Xinjiang, was the 1876 to 1878 campaign that destroyed Yaqub Beg's state and restored Qing control.

Qing Shihua

Qing Shihua (清詩話, "Qing poetry talks") is a 1916 anthology of 43 Qing-dynasty shihua works of poetic criticism, compiled by scholar Ding Fubao and a standard source for Qing poetics.

Qing Wang (engineer, National University of Singapore)

Qing Wang, also known as Wang Qing (王庆), is a Singapore-based materials scientist and engineer at the National University of Singapore known for inventing redox targeting-based flow batteries.

Qing Wang (engineer, Pennsylvania State University)

Qing Wang is a materials scientist and professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, known for dielectric polymers and nanocomposites for high-temperature energy storage.

Qing Yi

Qing Yi is a Chinese-born American medical immunologist who identified tumor-eradicating Th9 cells and leads translational myeloma immunotherapy research as a chaired professor at Houston Methodist since 2018.

Qing Yin Zheng

Qing Yin Zheng is a deafness geneticist who holds associate professorships in otolaryngology and genetics at Case Western Reserve University, studying mouse models of inherited human hearing loss.

Qing Yu An: Lantern Festival

Qing Yu An: Lantern Festival is a ci poem by Southern Song poet Xin Qiji describing the Lantern Festival night in Lin'an, famous for its closing lines.

Qing Zhang

Qing Zhang (张青) is a Chinese nanophotonics and materials scientist, a tenured associate professor at Peking University since 2022, known for halide perovskite nanolasers and room-temperature exciton polaritons.

Qing-Huo Liu

Qing-Huo Liu is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and Duke University professor known for computational electromagnetics and geophysical sensing, who received a 1996 Presidential Early Career Award.

Qing-Long Han

Qing-Long Han is an Australian control engineer who has been Pro Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne since 2016, known for time-delay and networked control systems.

Qingbo Xu

Qingbo Xu is a cardiovascular scientist known for work on heat-shock protein antibodies and stem cells in atherosclerosis, holding a BHF chair in London since 2006.

Qingcheng Shale Oil Field

Qingcheng Shale Oil Field (庆城油田) is a shale oil field in Qingyang, Gansu Province, China, discovered by PetroChina in 2019 and China's largest, with reserves exceeding 1 billion tons.

QingCloud (青云科技)

QingCloud Technologies Corp. (青云科技), founded as 优帆科技 in 2012, is a Beijing cloud-computing company offering public, hybrid, and private cloud, listed on the Shanghai STAR Market in 2021.

Qingdao (青岛市)

Qingdao (青岛市), a major port city on Shandong's coast with 10.44 million people, 2025 GDP of 1,756 billion yuan, China's fourth-largest coastal port by cargo, and a German-leased colonial past (1898–1914).

Qingdao aquarium

Qingdao Aquarium (青岛水族馆, also Qingdao Marine Science and Technology Museum / Qingdao Marine Products Museum), opened May 8, 1932 at Laiyang Road 2, is China's first Chinese-designed aquarium, now a National First-Grade Museum with five halls, 30,000+ specimens, and an aquatic wildlife rescue center.

Qingdao F.C.

Qingdao F.C. (青岛足球俱乐部), founded 29 January 2013 as Qingdao Hainiu, also known as Qingdao Huanghai, was a Chinese football club that won League Two 2013 and League One 2019, played the CSL 2020–2021, and withdrew from professional football on 13 April 2022 in a financial crisis.

Qingdao Polar Ocean Park

Qingdao Polar Ocean Park (青岛海昌极地海洋公园), also Qingdao Polar Ocean World, is a 4A marine theme park in Laoshan District, Qingdao, opened July 22, 2006 by Haichang, with belugas, polar bears, walruses, penguins, and animal shows.

Qingdao power station

Qingdao power station (华电国际青岛发电厂) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Shibei District, Qingdao, Shandong, China, operated by Huadian Qingdao Power Generation, with four 300 MW-class units.

Qingdao Rural Commercial Bank

Qingdao Rural Commercial Bank (青岛农商行) is a Chinese rural commercial bank formed in 2012 by merging nine rural cooperative institutions and listed in Shenzhen in March 2019.

Qingdao Underwater World

Qingdao Underwater World (青岛海底世界), also called Qingdao Aquarium (青岛水族馆), is a marine exhibition complex on Huiquan Bay, Qingdao, built around China's first Chinese-built aquarium, opened May 8, 1932, with a 2003 underground tunnel section.