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Gao Yan

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ5521645 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gao Yan may refer to:

Gao Yan (Northern Qi emperor), Emperor Xiaozhao of Northern Qi

Gao Yan (Northern Qi prince), prince of Northern Qi, son of Emperor Wucheng

J. J. M. de Groot, Chinese name Gao Yan, Dutch sinologist

Gao Yan (politician, born 1942), former Communist Party Secretary of Yunnan, Governor of Jilin, and leader of the State Power Corporation of China

Gao Yan (politician, born 1958) (Chinese: 高燕), former Vice Minister of Commerce, and Chairwoman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) from 2018 to 2022.

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The public source identifies “Gao Yan” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1958, 2018, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikimedia, disambiguation and page providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5521645. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1958, 2018 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gao Yan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.