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Yikolai Biotech (弈柯莱生物科技(集团)股份有限公司)

Yikolai Biotech (弈柯莱生物科技), also rendered Abiochem, is a Chinese synthetic biology and biomanufacturing company founded in 2015 by Dr. Luo Yu and headquartered in Shanghai, producing pharmaceutical ingredients, green agriculture products, and life health products.

Yikon Biotech (弈柯莱生物)

Yikon Biotech (弈柯莱生物), also known internationally as Abiochem, is a Chinese synthetic-biology company founded in Shanghai in 2015 that makes pharmaceutical intermediates, sweeteners, and food ingredients.

Yikong Zhijia (易控智驾)

Yikong Zhijia (易控智驾), formally EACON Group, is a Chinese autonomous-driving company founded in 2018, headquartered in Shanghang, Fujian, and the largest provider of mining autonomy in China.

Yikuang, Prince Qing

Yikuang, Prince Qing (奕劻) was a Manchu prince of the Qing imperial clan who headed foreign affairs, the Grand Council, and became Prime Minister of the Cabinet in 1911.

Yikun Bio (颐坤生物)

Yikun Bio (颐坤生物), formally Suzhou Yikun Biotechnology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese in-vitro diagnostics startup founded in 2019 in Suzhou by Zhang Sheng, known for the QSight 420MD mass spectrometry system.

Yikʼin Chan Kʼawiil

Yikʼin Chan Kʼawiil, son and successor of Jasaw Chan Kʼawiil I, was the 27th king of Tikal, reigning from 734 and recording victories over Calakmul.

Yildirim Holding

Yildirim Holding is a Turkish-owned, privately held industrial conglomerate, founded in 1963 in Samsun, now operating in nine industries across 57 countries with over 25,000 employees.

Yili

Yili (伊利), formally Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd., is a Chinese dairy company headquartered in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, and the largest dairy enterprise in Asia.

Yili (district)

Yili (伊犁地区) was a prefecture-level district of Xinjiang within the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, seat Yining City, existing 1975–1979 and 1985–2001; its territory is now the prefecture's directly administered counties.

Yili Group

Yili Group, also known as Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, is a dairy company headquartered in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, and China's largest dairy producer, first in Asia.

Yili No.4 Coal Mine

Yili No.4 Coal Mine (伊犁四号煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Huocheng County, Xinjiang, China, approved in 2018 and expanded to 9 million tonnes per year by 2024.

Yilibu

Yilibu (伊里布), 1772–1843, was a Qing dynasty official who rose to governor-general of Yungui and co-associate grand secretary, and helped negotiate the peace ending the First Opium War.

Yilin Hu

Yilin Hu is a biochemist and professor at UC Irvine known for discovering in 2011 that nitrogenases convert CO to hydrocarbons and for engineering ammonia synthesis in E. coli.

Yilma Deressa

Yilma Deressa (1907–1979) was an Ethiopian statesman who served as finance minister, ambassador to the United States, and foreign minister, and wrote a history of sixteenth-century Ethiopia.

Yimai Sunshine

Yimai Sunshine (一脉阳光, brand RIMAG) is a Chinese third-party medical imaging services company founded in Shenzhen in 2014, which became China's largest imaging group and listed in Hong Kong in 2024.

Yimei Zhu

Yimei Zhu (朱一美) is a condensed matter physicist and electron microscopist, a Senior Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory since 1988 who develops ultrafast and cryogenic electron microscopy for quantum materials.

Yimeng hydroelectric plant

The Yimeng hydroelectric plant (山东沂蒙抽水蓄能电站) is a 1,200 MW pumped-storage power station in Fei County, Linyi, Shandong, China, owned by State Grid Xinyuan and fully commissioned in March 2022.

Yimengshan UNESCO Global Geopark

Yimengshan UNESCO Global Geopark, in Linyi City, Shandong, China, designated 2019; 1,804.76 km² with five sub parks; known for Archean rocks, China's first kimberlite diamond deposit, and the Daigu landform type locality.

Yimidida (壹米滴答)

Yimidida (壹米滴答), legally Shanghai Yimi Dida Express Co., Ltd., is a Chinese less-than-truckload freight logistics company founded in Shanghai in 2015 by uniting 14 regional carriers.

Yimin power station

Yimin power station, also known as Huaneng Yimin power station, is a lignite-fired power station in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China, with six units totaling 3,400 MW, built between 1998 and 2010.

Yimin Surface Mine

Yimin Surface Mine (伊敏露天矿) is a large open-pit lignite coal mine in Ewenki Autonomous Banner, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, and part of China's first integrated coal-electricity enterprise.

Yimin Zou

Yimin Zou (邹益民) is a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Diego, known for identifying Wnt proteins as axon guidance molecules that wire the nervous system.

Yimitasvir phosphate

Yimitasvir phosphate (磷酸依米他韦, Dongwei'en) is an oral HCV NS5A inhibitor by Guangdong HEC, approved in China December 2020 with sofosbuvir for genotype 1 non-cirrhotic chronic hepatitis C, SVR12 99.5%, once-daily 0.1 g capsule.

Yimouxun

Yimouxun (异牟寻) was king of Nanzhao in present-day Yunnan who, after an invasion of Shu and years under Tibetan overlordship, swore an oath at Diancangshan in 794 returning his kingdom to Tang suzerainty.

Yin and yang (阴阳)

Yin and yang (阴阳) are the correlative complementary categories of Chinese philosophy, first sun-orientation terms, later the basis of cosmology, Chinese medicine, and comparative philosophy with Western dualism, dialectics, and philosophy of mind.

Yin Fu

Yin Fu, pen name Bai Mang, was a Chinese revolutionary poet and Communist, executed in Shanghai in 1931 as one of the Left-League Five Martyrs.

Yin Jian

Yin Jian (殷剑), born 1978 in Xichang, Sichuan, is a Chinese windsurfer who won silver at Athens 2004 (Mistral) and gold at Beijing 2008 (RS:X), China's first Olympic sailing gold, by one point over Alessandra Sensini; later a Sichuan sports administrator.

Yin Jifu

Yin Jifu (尹吉甫) was a senior minister of the Western Zhou dynasty who served King Xuan of Zhou, fought the Xianyun, and is credited with poems in the Book of Songs.

Yin Mingshan

Yin Mingshan (尹明善), born January 1938, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Lifan Group in Chongqing in 1992 at age 54, building it into one of China's largest motorcycle producers.

Yin Mountains

Yin Mountains (阴山山脉, Yinshan), an east-west range about 1,000 km long in central Inner Mongolia and northern Hebei, highest peak Hohè Bāshìgé 2,364 m; the historic farming-pastoralism frontier, Great Wall corridor, and home of the Yinshan petroglyphs.