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Wuda Mining Area
Wuda Mining Area (乌达矿区) is a coal mining district in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China, a major source of coking coal and a large underground coal fire area.
Wudalianchi Biosphere Reserve
Wudalianchi Biosphere Reserve (五大连池), Heilongjiang, China: UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2003, 106,000 ha, protecting an intracontinental monogenetic volcanic field of 14 cones, 1719–1721 eruptions, five lava-dammed lakes, and cold mineral springs.
Wudan (武旦)
Wudan (武旦) is the martial female role type in Chinese opera, split into short-fight wudan and long-armor daomadan, known for weapon-throwing tricks (打出手), acrobatic combat, and roles like Sun Erniang and Mu Guiying.
WuDaoCorpora
WuDaoCorpora is a large Chinese and English text corpus for pre-training language models, built in 2021 by the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), whose openly released base version is 200 GB.
Wuding Army
The Wuding Army (武定军) was a regional military command of the Tang dynasty, headed by a military governor and seated first at Yangzhou and later at Junzhou, with shifting prefectures until its abolition.
Wudong Coal Mine
Wudong Coal Mine (乌东煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, owned by China Energy and known for mining steeply inclined, extra-thick seams.
Wudongde hydroelectric plant
Wudongde hydroelectric plant (乌东德水电站) is a 10.2 GW hydropower station on the lower Jinsha River, upper Yangtze, on the Sichuan-Yunnan border, the world's seventh largest and fully operational since June 2021.
Wudu (الوضوء)
Wudu (الوضوء), also known as wudhu, is the minor ritual ablution in Islam, performed with clean water before prayer and required for it, alongside ghusl and tayammum.
Wuestenrot & Wuerttembergische
Wüstenrot & Württembergische AG (W&W AG) is a Stuttgart-region financial group formed in 1999, combining Germany's oldest building society with a property, life, and health insurer.
Wugen
Wugen, also known as Allotera Therapeutics, is a clinical-stage St. Louis biotechnology company founded in 2018 from Washington University research, developing off-the-shelf CAR-T therapies for T-cell blood cancers.
Wugongshan UNESCO Global Geopark
Wugongshan UNESCO Global Geopark (武功山), designated March 2024 in western Jiangxi, China, spans 1,470.82 km2 around a Mesozoic granite dome with alpine meadows, granite peak forests, waterfalls, and a hot springs chain.
Wuhai
Wuhai Shi (乌海市), Wuhai City, is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Inner Mongolia on the Yellow River, formed in 1976 by merging Wuda and Haibowan cities; a coal city designated resource-depleted in 2011, now known for Wuhai Lake desert scenery, calligraphy, and wine.
Wuhai Botanical Garden
Wuhai Botanical Garden (乌海植物园) is a 140-hectare 2A-rated open urban garden in northern Haibowan District, Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, converted from the city nursery, opened in 2004, with 38 tree species, 300,000 trees, and 11 scenic zones.
Wuhan (武汉)
Wuhan (武汉), capital of Hubei Province at the Yangtze–Han River confluence, is Central China's only sub-provincial city, divided into Hankou, Wuchang, and Hanyang; 13.8 million residents, 2025 GDP 2.21 trillion yuan.
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS (中国科学院武汉植物园), a research-oriented botanical garden founded 1956 and established 1958 in Wuhan; one of China's three core CAS botanical gardens, with 13,000+ species, world-leading kiwifruit and aquatic plant collections, and the Sino-African Joint Research Center.
Wuhan Happy Valley
Wuhan Happy Valley (武汉欢乐谷) is OCT Group's fifth Happy Valley theme park, opened April 29, 2012 at East Lake Scenic Area, Wuhan; a Class-4A park with Dueling Dragon, Dancing Phoenix, and Extreme Rusher coasters.
Wuhan Healthgen Biotechnology (禾元生物)
Wuhan Healthgen Biotechnology (禾元生物) is a Chinese biotechnology company in Wuhan that uses rice seeds to produce the world's first approved plant-derived human serum albumin.
Wuhan Institute of Virology
Wuhan Institute of Virology (武汉病毒研究所), Chinese Academy of Sciences virology institute founded 1956; runs China's first BSL-4 lab, holds RaTG13 and 220+ bat SARS-related coronaviruses, and is central to the COVID-19 lab-leak debate.
Wuhan Iron and Steel
Wuhan Iron and Steel, known as WISCO or 武钢, is a Chinese steel producer in Wuhan, Hubei, the first extra-large state-built steel plant, producing from 1958.
Wuhan Mairui Bio-Medical Technology (Mindray Wuhan subsidiary)
Wuhan Mairui Bio-Medical Technology (武汉迈瑞医疗技术研究院有限公司) was a wholly owned Mindray medical-device subsidiary in Wuhan, incorporated in 2019 and deregistered in 2025 after merger into Wuhan Mindray Scientific.
Wuhan National Government
The Wuhan National Government (武汉国民政府) was the Nationalist government of the Republic of China, seated in Wuhan in 1926–1927 as a coalition in which Communists formally took part.
Wuhan Yijiabao Biological Materials
Wuhan Yijiabao Biological Materials (YiJiABiO) is a Chinese medical-device maker in Wuhan, founded in 2014, that makes orthopedic implants; Dongxing Medical acquired 90% of it in 2026.
Wuhan Zoo
Wuhan Zoo (武汉动物园), a comprehensive municipal zoo on Moshui Lake in Hanyang District, Wuhan, China; 67 hectares, once ranked among China's eight major zoos (1987), reopened September 28, 2023 after renovation with 1,100+ animals of 138 species and pandas Wulin and Mengmeng.
Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway
The Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway is a 1,068-kilometer line linking Wuhan and Guangzhou, opened in 2009 as the world's longest single high-speed project, cutting the trip to about three hours.
Wuhaogou LNG Storage Facility
Wuhaogou LNG Storage Facility (五号沟LNG接收存储站) is an LNG import and storage terminal in Caolu Town, Pudong, Shanghai, owned by Shenergy Group with a regasification capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per year.
Wuhu
Wuhu (芜湖市), Anhui Province city on the Yangtze at the Qingyi River confluence; former treaty port and rice market, now Anhui's second-largest economy, home of Chery, GDP 512 billion yuan in 2024.
Wuhu Jiana (芜湖佳纳)
Wuhu Jiana (芜湖佳纳), formally Wuhu Jiana Energy Technology Co., Ltd., is the lithium-battery-materials platform of Shenzhen-listed Dows Technology, valued at RMB 11.365 billion in 2022.
Wuhu power station
Wuhu power station (安徽华电芜湖发电公司) is a 2,320 MW coal-fired power plant in Sanshan, Wuhu, Anhui, China, whose first unit was China's first 660 MW ultra-supercritical unit in 2008.
Wuhu Zhongdian power station
Wuhu Zhongdian power station (中电国际芜湖发电厂) is a 1,320 megawatt coal-fired power station on Siwan Road in Wuhu, Anhui, China, owned by Wuhu Power Generation Co Ltd under the SPIC group.
Wuhuan
The Wuhuan (乌桓) were a nomadic herding people of China's northeastern frontier descended from the Donghu, resettled inside the Han frontier and crushed by Cao Cao in 207.