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Zhejiang Zhenhai power station

Zhejiang Zhenhai power station (浙能镇海发电厂) is a thermal power plant in Zhenhai District, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China, built in the 1970s and relocated to new coal and gas units by 2025.

Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign

The Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign (浙赣会战) was a campaign of the Second Sino-Japanese War fought from May to September 1942, triggered by the first American air raid on Japan.

Zheleznodorozhnyy, Moscow Oblast

Zheleznodorozhnyy (Железнодорожный), a former city in Moscow Oblast east of Moscow, grew from the 1861 Obiralovka railway station, was renamed in 1939, became a city in 1952, and merged into Balashikha in 2015.

Zhem

Zhem (Emba, Жем) is a 700 km snow-fed river in western Kazakhstan, flowing from the Mugodzhar Mountains toward the Caspian; its 40,400 km2 basin spans Aktobe and Atyrau, and its April 2024 flood inundated Kulsary.

Zhen Dexiu

Zhen Dexiu (真德秀, 1178–1235) was a Southern Song Neo-Confucian scholar and statesman who twice served as prefect of Quanzhou and presented the Daxue yanyi to the throne.

Zhen Guo Zhu Zai (镇国主宰)

Zhen Guo Zhu Zai (镇国主宰) is a 2024 Chinese vertical micro-drama by Judian Duanju: 90 episodes, war-god revenge plot of Zhan Tiandi, starring Wang Ziming, with over 10 million RMB in recharges.

Zhen He

Zhen He, also known as Zhen (Jason) He, is an American environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis who works on microbial fuel cells for wastewater treatment.

Zhen Huo

Zhen Huo (霍震) is an associate professor of economics at Yale University and co-editor of the Journal of International Economics, known for work on global supply chains and trade decoupling.

Zhen Partners

Zhen Partners is the fund brand for the offshore venture capital vehicles of ZhenFund, an early-stage firm co-founded in Beijing in 2011 by Bob Xu, Victor Wang, and Anna Fang.

Zhen Yan

Zhen Yan is a neuroscientist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo who studies synaptic and epigenetic mechanisms of brain disorders, including autism and Alzheimer's disease.

Zhen Zhang

Zhen Zhang is a Chinese venture capitalist and founding partner of Gaorong Capital, which he co-founded in 2014 with IDG Capital colleagues, best known for backing Pinduoduo.

Zhen-Gang Wang

Zhen-Gang Wang is a chemical engineer at Caltech, the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for his theories of polymer phase behavior and self-assembly.

Zhen‐Ming Pei

Zhen-Ming Pei (裴真明) is a plant biologist and associate professor at Duke University whose laboratory identified Arabidopsis cell-surface sensors for drought, salt, and hydrogen peroxide, including OSCA1, GIPC, and HPCA1.

Zhen’an hydroelectric plant

The Zhen'an hydroelectric plant is a 1,400 MW pumped-storage plant in Zhen'an County, Shaanxi, China. Shaanxi's first such station, it is Northwest China's largest and has been fully operational since December 2024.

Zhen'gao

Zhen'gao (真诰, Declarations of the Perfected) is a twenty-juan Shangqing Daoist scripture compiled by Tao Hongjing from spirit revelations received at Mount Mao in the 360s, and the representative classic of the Shangqing school.

Zhenan Bao

Zhenan Bao (鲍哲南) is the K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, known for skin-inspired organic electronics, especially stretchable, self-healing, and biodegradable electronic skin.

Zhenbei Army

The Zhenbei Army (镇北军) was a Southern Song frontier army of over 15,000 Central Plains recruits, founded by Meng Gong at Xiangyang in 1234 to guard against the Mongols.

Zhenbiao Yang

Zhenbiao Yang (杨贞标) is a plant cell biologist known for work on auxin perception and ROP GTPase signaling, a UC Riverside professor who moved to Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology in 2023.

Zhencheng Auto

Zhencheng Auto (真橙汽车) is a Chinese used-car transaction services platform in Nanjing whose only verified funding is a RMB 500 million strategic round from Shunheng Capital in April 2023.

Zhenchuan wenji

Zhenchuan Ji, or Zhenchuan xiansheng ji (震川先生集), is the collected prose and verse of Ming dynasty writer Gui Youguang, first assembled completely during the Kangxi reign.

Zhendi (Paramārtha)

Zhendi, or Paramārtha (真諦), born Kulanātha in Ujjayinī, India, was a Buddhist monk who translated 64 texts in China from 546 until his death in 569, founding the Shelun school.

Zheneng Changxing power station

Zheneng Changxing power station (浙能长兴发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Heping Town, Changxing County, Zhejiang, China, whose four units were commissioned from 2003 to 2006.

Zheneng Liuheng power station

The Zheneng Liuheng power station (浙能六横电厂) is a coal-fired power plant on Liuheng Island in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China, operated by Zheneng Group, with two phases totaling about 4,000 MW.

Zheneng Wenzhou power station

Zheneng Wenzhou power station (浙能温州发电厂) is a coal-fired power station of at least 2,520 megawatts at Panshi, Yueqing, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, owned by Zhejiang Provincial Energy Group.

Zheneng Yueqing power station

Zheneng Yueqing power station (浙能乐清电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Yueqing, Zhejiang, China, built in three phases between 2005 and 2023 to 4,520 MW.

ZhenFund

ZhenFund (真格基金) is a Beijing-based angel and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Bob Xu, Victor Wang, and Anna Fang, backing over 800 startups.

Zheng (surname)

Zheng (郑/鄭, Zhèng) is a Chinese surname from the ancient state of Zheng, destroyed by Han in 375 BC. Main origin via Lord Huan of Zheng of the Ji clan; leading junwang Xingyang; ranks 21st in mainland China, 12th in Taiwan, 5th in Korea.

Zheng Cao

Zheng Cao (曹錚), 1966–2013, Shanghai-born American mezzo-soprano, San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow known for Suzuki, Cherubino, and creating Ruth in The Bonesetter's Daughter; also her stage-4 lung cancer fight and the opera Zheng about her life.

Zheng Chen

Zheng Chen is a Chinese-American battery scientist and engineer, a professor at UC San Diego who leads the Sustainable Materials and Energy Laboratory and works on battery recycling.

Zheng Chenggong's Yangtze campaign (1659)

Zheng Chenggong's Yangtze campaign (郑成功长江之役) was a 1659 Ming-loyalist naval expedition in which Zheng took Guazhou and Zhenjiang and reached Nanjing before Qing forces destroyed his army.