Manufacturing and Industry in China The Chinese have long since been an enterprising group of people. Long before the introduction of Western technologies and ideas, this country has had a history of local industry dating back some 2000 years. These innovative people, from an early time, produced paper, gunpowder, and silk, and printing with one of the first movable type. In all, the manufacture of luxury items, fine handcrafts, metal crafting and the manufacture of tools …showed first 75 words of 1494 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1494 total…figure in China throughout the 1980s and 1990s, trade and industry expanded considerably. By attracting foreign investment, Deng and the other leaders took a far better look at the economic policies than the political aspect of prior leaders. (Microsoft Encarta). In all, the Chinese have become a major industrial nation through the ingenious and determined efforts of its people. These efforts have continued to expand for some 2000 years and will no doubt continue. Bibliography none