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Gunpowder is believed to have been invented in China and while its military applications weren't utilized for quite some time (or at least practical military applications).
By the time it was obvious others such as the Muslims and Europeans were starting to use them that way, you'd assume China would have had the infrastructure to dwarf the production capacity of any other?