Great inventions of China kept pouring into west asia and Europe until the 16th century when Jesuits in the hope of defending Catholicism against Reformation came to China to spread Christianity.

• 中国的创造发明源源不断地流入西方。直到16世纪耶稣会会士为抗衡宗教改革到中国传播天主教，这一流向才发生逆转。