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 were all well established businesses

long before the onset of western entrepreneurs. (Compton's Interactive).

One of the first goals of the Communists, after 1949, was to develop the

growth of heavy industry. The practice, following the model of the Soviet Union.

They attempted to attract industrial development in the interior sections of China.

The thought here was that there was already significant wealth in the old treaty

port cities. New steel mills were constructed at Wuhan on the Yangtze and at

Baotou in the Interior Mangolia. Other interior cities also grew at a rapid pace.

The communists took advantage, as well, of coastal cities, such as Shanghai.

Shanghai and the like were attractive due to

ingenious and determined efforts of its people. These efforts have continued to

self. China boasts some 1635 thousand newspaper with a combined circulating in

barrels. China now claims to be second only to Suadi Arabia in rich oil reserves.

once isolated were now accessible through the railroad. The construction of these

branch ones. The Kong family was instrumental in laying the foundation for the

China is still today a large textile manufacturing nation. The Shangtung

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