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China RISC-V Industry Consortium

The China RISC-V Industry Consortium (CRVIC, 中国RISC-V产业联盟) is a Chinese industry alliance for the RISC-V architecture, co-established in Shanghai in 2018 by 65 enterprises and institutions and chaired by VeriSilicon.

China Ship Scientific Research Center

The China Ship Scientific Research Center (中国船舶科学研究中心), also known as the 702nd Research Institute, is a Chinese ship research institute in Wuxi, Jiangsu, founded in 1951.

China Sinopec Pipeline Storage and Transportation

China Sinopec Pipeline Storage and Transportation, or PSTC, was Sinopec's crude-oil pipeline subsidiary, headquartered in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, moving crude from eastern oil fields and import terminals to refineries until the 2020 PipeChina reform.

China Sonangol International Holding Ltd

China Sonangol International Holding Ltd is a Hong Kong-incorporated joint venture, formed in 2004 between Beiya International Development and Angola's state oil company Sonangol, and core company of the 88 Queensway Group.

China Southern Airlines (中国南方航空)

China Southern Airlines (中国南方航空) is China's largest airline by passenger traffic, headquartered in Guangzhou and operating a fleet of over 900 aircraft from hubs in Guangzhou and Beijing.

China State Shipbuilding Corporation

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), also called China Shipbuilding Group, is a Chinese state-owned conglomerate formed in 2019 and the world's largest shipbuilder, building warships for the Chinese navy.

China syndrome

The China syndrome is a worst-case nuclear reactor accident in which the core melts through the plant, theoretically reaching China through the earth; a 1979 film popularized it.

China Three Gorges Corporation

China Three Gorges Corporation (中国长江三峡集团) is a Chinese state-owned energy company founded in 1993 to build the Three Gorges Project, and describes itself as the world's largest hydropower enterprise.

China unified electricity market

The China unified electricity market (全国统一电力市场) is China's system of market-based electricity trading, built since the 2015 power sector reform, with market-traded power reaching 61.4% of consumption by 2023.

China ZhenHua Oil Co

China ZhenHua Oil Co, commonly shortened to ZhenHua Oil, is a Chinese state-owned oil company established in 2003 under the defense conglomerate NORINCO and headquartered in Beijing.

China Zorrilla (ship)

The China Zorrilla, also known as HSC China Zorrilla, is a 130-meter battery-electric ferry built by Incat for Buquebus and the largest battery-electric ship to date.

China-Laos Railway

The China-Laos Railway is a 1,035 km electrified railway connecting Kunming, capital of China's Yunnan province, with Vientiane, the capital of Laos, opened on December 3, 2021.

China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway

The China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway is a roughly 530-kilometer rail link under construction from Kashgar, China, through Kyrgyzstan's Tien Shan mountains to Andijan, Uzbekistan, agreed in June 2024.

China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (中巴经济走廊)

The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, or CPEC, is a bilateral infrastructure program linking Kashgar in China with Pakistan's port of Gwadar, launched in 2013 as the flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative.

China–Russia East Pipeline

The China–Russia East Pipeline (中俄东线天然气管道) carries natural gas from East Siberia to Shanghai, delivering up to 38 billion cubic meters per year under a 30-year contract begun in 2019.

China's open-weight frontier dominance

China's open-weight frontier dominance is the 2025–26 pattern in which the largest, most downloaded open-weight AI models come from Chinese labs like DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and Moonshot AI.

Chinampa

A chinampa is a small artificial island built on a shallow lake bed in Mesoamerica, used by the Aztecs to grow crops on raised beds.

Chinarevskoye Oil and Gas Field

The Chinarevskoye field (Чинаревское) is an onshore oil and gas condensate field in north-western Kazakhstan, discovered in 1991 and operated since 1997 by Zhaikmunai LLP.

Chinasat

Chinasat, also known as Zhongxing (中星), is a series of Chinese geostationary communications satellites operated by China Satcom, with 19 satellites in orbit at the end of 2025.

Chinchilla scaling laws

The Chinchilla scaling laws are a 2022 DeepMind result stating that compute-optimal language models scale parameters and training tokens equally, roughly 20 tokens per parameter, reversing earlier guidance.

Chinese Academy of Engineering

The Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院, CAE), inaugurated in Beijing in 1994, is China's highest honorary and advisory institution for engineering science and technology and a national think tank.

Chinese AI startup funding surge

The Chinese AI startup funding surge was the 2023–2026 wave of mega-rounds and state guidance funds financing China's foundation-model companies like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek.

Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian

The Fujian (PLANS Fujian) is a Chinese aircraft carrier, China's first domestically designed CATOBAR carrier with electromagnetic catapults, launched in 2022 and commissioned in 2025.

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning

Liaoning (辽宁舰; CNS Liaoning), hull number 16, is the first aircraft carrier of China's People's Liberation Army Navy, a ski-jump carrier refitted from the unfinished Soviet ship Varyag and commissioned in 2012.

Chinese aircraft carrier programme

Chinese aircraft carrier programme: PLAN carrier fleet of Liaoning (refitted Varyag, 2012), Shandong (2019), and Fujian (commissioned November 5, 2025), China's first electromagnetic-catapult carrier over 80,000 tonnes, with Type 004 planned.

Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong

Shandong (山东舰, CNS Shandong) is a Chinese aircraft carrier commissioned in 2019, the second in the Chinese navy and the first wholly designed and built in China.

Chinese architecture

Chinese architecture, also called the architecture of China, is a building tradition defined by timber-frame construction with interlocking dougong brackets, spanning Neolithic times to today.

Chinese input method

A Chinese input method, known in Chinese as 输入法, is software that converts keystrokes, handwriting, or speech into Chinese characters on computers and phones, with pinyin the predominant method in mainland China.

Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (中国探月工程)

The Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, also called the Chang'e Program, is China's robotic lunar exploration program, run by CNSA and approved in 2004 around a three-step strategy of orbiting, landing, and returning samples.

Chinese passport

The Chinese passport (中华人民共和国护照), formally the People's Republic of China passport, certifies a Chinese citizen's identity for travel abroad; it comes in ordinary, diplomatic, and service types.