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Zhongwei power station

Zhongwei power station (中卫电厂) is a coal-fired power and heating plant in Zhongwei, Ningxia, China, with two 350 MW units since 2016 and a 4×660 MW expansion completed in 2026.

Zhongxian

Xuedou Zhongxian (雪窦重显, 980–1052) was a Chinese Chan (Zen) monk of the Yunmen school who served 31 years as abbot of Zisheng Monastery on Mount Xuedou, Zhejiang.

Zhongxiang

Zhongxiang (钟祥市) is a county-level city in Jingmen, central Hubei, on the middle Han River. Birthplace of the Jiajing Emperor, home of the UNESCO-listed Xianling Mausoleum, and a phosphorus-chemical center with 2025 GDP of 682.69 billion yuan.

Zhongxiao Army

The Zhongxiao Army (忠孝军) was a late Jin dynasty cavalry force of escaped former Mongol captives, known for its night fire-lance attack at Wangjiasi that drowned about 3,500 Mongols.

Zhongxing City Site

中兴城址 (Zhongxing city site), also 中兴古城遗址 or Jin-era 奥里米东城, is a Liao–Jin fortified town in Suibin County, Hegang, Heilongjiang: a near-square walled city of 1,460 m perimeter with triple walls, moats, satellite forts, and 12 excavated Jin tombs; a 2013 national key cultural relic site.

Zhongyan Jianye (中盐(内蒙古)碱业有限公司)

Zhongyan Jianye (中盐(内蒙古)碱业有限公司) is a Chinese natural trona mining and soda ash company founded in 2025 in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, and controlled by Zhongyan Chemical.

Zhongyong Lun

Zhongyong Lun (中庸论) is a set of three essays by Song writer Su Shi on the Doctrine of the Mean, written between 1057 and 1061.

Zhongyuan Bank

Zhongyuan Bank (中原银行) is a commercial bank in Henan, China, formed in 2014 by merging thirteen city commercial banks and listed in Hong Kong in 2017.

Zhongyuan Special Steel

Zhongyuan Special Steel (中原特钢) was a Chinese state-owned special-steel maker in Henan province, controlled by China South Industries Group and listed in Shenzhen in 2010, renamed COFCO Capital in 2019.

Zhongyuan Yinyun

Zhongyuan Yinyun (中原音韻, "Rhymes of the Central Plain") is a rhyme dictionary for northern song compiled by Zhou Deqing and completed in 1324, recording Old Mandarin.

Zhongzai (Grand Chancellor)

Zhongzai (冢宰), or Grand Chancellor, was the head of the six ministers in the idealized Zhou state, said to rule the hundred officials and decide government affairs during a ruler's three-year mourning.

Zhongze Gu

Zhongze Gu (顾忠泽) is a Chinese biomedical engineer and materials scientist at Southeast University in Nanjing, known for photonic-crystal chemical sensing, structural color materials, and organ-on-a-chip systems.

Zhongzhen Camp

Zhongzhen Camp (忠贞营) was the name given to the former Dashun army of Li Guo and Gao Yigong after it surrendered to the Southern Ming court in 1645.

Zhongzhou Collection and Renchen Miscellany

The Zhongzhou Collection and Renchen Miscellany (元好问中州集及壬辰杂编) are two works compiled by Yuan Haowen after the Jin dynasty's fall, preserving a generation of Jin poetry.

Zhores Alferov

Zhores Alferov (Жорес Иванович Алфёров) was a Soviet and Russian physicist at the Ioffe Institute in St Petersburg who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for semiconductor heterostructures.

Zhores I. Alfërov

Zhores I. Alfërov, full name Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, was a Soviet and Russian physicist who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for semiconductor heterostructures.

Zhostovo painting

Zhostovo painting (Жостовская роспись) is a Russian folk craft of hand-painting metal trays with floral designs, centered in the village of Zhostovo near Moscow since 1825.

Zhou Baigen

Zhou Baigen (周柏根), born 1965, is a Chinese express-delivery executive who joined Yunda in 2000 and has been a vice president of Yunda Holding since 2017.

Zhou Bangyan

Zhou Bangyan (周邦彦), courtesy name Meicheng, was a Northern Song official, musician, and lyric poet who served three emperors and created tune forms later poets took as models.

Zhou Bo

Zhou Bo (周勃) was a Han dynasty general and statesman who rose from poverty to become Grand Commandant and Chancellor, and secured the Liu dynasty by destroying the Lü clan.

Zhou Boyun

Zhou Boyun (周伯云, born 1967) is a Chinese businessman who founded Shanlin Jinrong, a Shanghai P2P lender that raised 73.7 billion yuan from investors before collapsing in 2018.

Zhou calendar (Zhou zheng)

The Zhou calendar, or Zhou zheng (周正), is the calendar attributed to the Zhou dynasty, beginning the year with the winter solstice month, one of the three zheng year-starts.

Zhou Chen

Zhou Chen (周忱, 1380–1453) was a Ming dynasty official who served as grand coordinator of the Jiangnan prefectures for two decades, clearing Suzhou's 8,000,000-shi tax arrears through the pingmi method and the Jinong granary.

Zhou Chen's fiscal reforms (Jiangnan tax rationalization)

Zhou Chen's fiscal reforms (周忱改革) were tax measures in Ming China's Jiangnan region from 1430, led by Zhou Chen and centered on the level rice method.

Zhou Chengjian

Zhou Chengjian (周成建, born 1965) is a Chinese apparel entrepreneur who founded Metersbonwe, one of China's largest homegrown casualwear chains, opening its first Wenzhou store in 1995.

Zhou Clan of Runan

The Zhou Clan of Runan (汝南周氏) was a Chinese lineage of scholars and officials serving the Eastern Jin, Song, Liang, and Chen courts, best known for the metaphysician Zhou Hongzheng.

Zhou Dafu

Zhou Dafu is a Chinese novelist and retired army writer from Dengzhou, Henan, who won the 2008 Mao Dun Literature Prize for Lake Light and Mountain Color.

Zhou Daguan

Zhou Daguan (周達觀) was a Chinese writer of the Yuan dynasty who joined a 1296 mission to Cambodia and wrote the only surviving account of the Angkor kingdom.

Zhou Daixing

Zhou Daixing (周代星, born 1966) is a Chinese-American genetic-testing executive who co-founded Berry Genomics in Beijing in 2010 and is credited with introducing non-invasive prenatal testing to China.

Zhou Dawu

Zhou Dawu (周达武), also known as Zhou Mengxiong, was a Qing dynasty general from Ningxiang, Hunan, who rose from common soldier to provincial commander-in-chief and died in office in 1894.