China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...

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These were arrows outfitted with gunpowder-powered attachments that propelled them further than a person could otherwise fire them. The Chinese also invented fireworks rockets, which many people enjoy ...

At China’s annual legislative meeting ... Review lamented how China had gone from a country that invented the compass, gunpowder and paper, to one that favoured imitation over innovation.