Why is China's ability of scientific and technological innovation higher than that of the West in the world's 5,000-year history?

China's innovation ability in history is higher than that in the west, mainly in two aspects.

First, the original ability of science and technology in China is higher than that in the West.

Ancient irrigation tools in China

Most of China's science and technology was created by China. Many scientific and technological civilizations in ancient Greece, the birthplace of western civilization, were learned from foreign countries, not native ones.

Many scholars from ancient Greece came to ancient Egypt and Babylon and learned a lot of local advanced scientific and cultural achievements, and brought back the scientific and cultural achievements learned in many parts of the world to ancient Greece for development.

The famous astronomy in ancient Greece was learned from Babylon. The famous geometry and medicine in ancient Greece were all learned from ancient Egypt. The letters of ancient Greek characters were learned from the Phoenicians in Arabia.

China's science, technology and culture are developed locally in the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin. Although it absorbed some from India, Arabia, Europe and other places, most of them were independently developed in the local area, which was originally created by China. This reflects that the original ability of China's science and technology is higher than that of the west.

Ancient Greek mechanical device

Secondly, according to the statistics of UNESCO, most of the world's important inventions before the early Qing Dynasty were initiated by China. For most of the time before the early Qing Dynasty, China was ahead of the world in science and technology. In the history of the world, China's science and technology has been ahead of the world for a long time than western science and technology.

This shows that China's technological innovation ability is much higher than that of the West.

Dr Needham is a famous British expert in the history of science and technology in the world. He was elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences and a foreign academician of the China Academy of Sciences. He spent 45 years studying the development history of ancient science and technology in China, and compiled the book "History of Science and Technology in China".

Needham believed that the level of scientific and technological development in ancient and medieval China was beyond the reach of the West, especially before15th century.

China's ancient scientific and technological achievements, whether in China's traditional strong fields of mathematics, medicine, agriculture, astronomy, or in the fields of metallurgy, machinery, hydraulic engineering, textile, shipbuilding, etc., the number of scientific and technological inventions initiated by China in the world far exceeds that of the West.

Dr. Needham

Wang Yusheng, a professor at China Academy of Sciences and vice chairman of Beijing Association for Science and Technology, believes that China's scientific and technological civilization occupied half of the world from six or seven thousand years ago to two or three thousand years ago, and was always ahead 300 years ago.

Only in ancient Greece and Rome, the West can be compared with China, leading China for more than 200 years in modern times, and obviously lagging behind China in other historical periods.

China made daily necessities and industrial products in ancient times. Medicine, mathematical calculation and astronomy are all ahead of Europe.

1, daily necessities

China is the first country in the world to invent wine-making technology. China discovered wine brewed with honey and rice 9000 years ago in the north. In the west, brewing is only 1000 years old.

2. In industrial manufacturing.

China had already produced cast iron on a large scale as early as the 4th century BC, and Europeans were behind China 1500 years.

China is the first country in the world to apply gunpowder to weapons of war. In 900 AD, China people used gunpowder to launch iron balls on the city walls to attack the enemy. They have already started to use gunpowder as a weapon of war. In contrast, the use of gunpowder was not recorded in the west until around AD 1200, even later for weapons.

Zheng He's fleet in Ming Dynasty has been to Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Africa. More than 500 years earlier than the fleets of European countries. This reflects that China's shipbuilding technology in Ming Dynasty was far ahead of Europe.

Zheng He's fleet westbound.

3. In medicine.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Hua Tuo, a famous doctor, began to use anesthetics in surgery, more than 600 years earlier than in Europe.

Immunology was first invented by China. A vaccine to prevent smallpox was invented in A.D. 1000. In A.D. 1500, Chinese medicine published a book introducing this therapy. Vaccination in China was introduced to Britain through Turkey in A.D. 1700, and immunization was only started in Europe.

4. Mathematics

In ancient China, the mathematical calculation accuracy was high and the algorithm was clever, which was obviously ahead of the west.

Zu Chongzhi, a mathematician in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, calculated pi between 3. 14 15926 and 3. 14 15927, which was more than one year earlier than Europe. Liu Hui, a mathematician in the Three Kingdoms period, was the first person in the world to put forward the concepts of positive and negative numbers, ahead of Europe.

Nine Chapters Arithmetic in the Eastern Han Dynasty was the most advanced applied mathematics work in the world at that time.

5. Astronomy

China is the first country in the world to form astronomy.

China's earliest astronomical work was Shi Gan's Astrology in the Warring States Period, which was 200 years earlier than that in the West. The book records the names of 800 stars in detail, and determines the position of 12 1 star.

The record of Halley's comet in China's ancient book Spring and Autumn Annals is recognized as the earliest record of Halley's comet in the world, more than 600 years earlier than that in Europe.

Halley's Comet

We can't just see the decline of China in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. Because western countries have declined in history. For example, in the middle ages 1000 years, Europe became a period of decline and darkness due to the melee between various regions.

After the founding of New China, especially after the reform and opening up, China's scientific and technological level has been revived, and now it is moving towards the goal of becoming a world scientific and technological power again in 2049.

In the report of Global Innovation Index released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, China's international ranking keeps rising. China has risen from the 54th place in 2007 to the14th place in 2020, which has been tied with advanced countries.

According to the statistics of the international authoritative high-performance computer conference, among the top 500 supercomputers in the world, in 2020, China's supercomputers have surpassed the United States for three consecutive times, ranking first in the world. In 2020, the total number of China's top 500 supercomputers is second only to that of the United States.

During the first and second industrial revolutions in the world, China was seriously backward. China tried to catch up during the third industrial revolution. Now, in the field of artificial intelligence, the core technology of the fourth industrial revolution, China has been in a leading position in the world.

China Mars probe landed on Mars.

On 20021May 15, China's fire detector Zhu Rong successfully landed on the surface of Mars, becoming the third country in the world after the United States and the Soviet Union.

China has been outstanding since ancient times, and neighboring countries have been learning China's science and technology culture since ancient times.

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