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2China's Long History of Biotechnology Traditional forms of biotechnology have existed in China since its earliest history. According to legend, Shen Nong, a mythical king, introduced China to grain cultivation and crop rotation, and invented a transparent stomach covering in order to observe the effects of herbal medicines on the digestive tract.
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unknown in China when the door to the West was reluctantly opened to traders and missionaries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. China's defeat by the gunboats of European imperialism in the Opium War (1840-1842)
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education system during the Cultural Revolution is a major generational gap in trained scientists. Following Mao Zedong's death in 1976, the Chinese leadership was embroiled in internal power struggles and debate about the country's direction, which culminated in 1978 in the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping and the declaration of the Four Modernizations as China's state policy.
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