Fire medicine is the direct translation of the characters that form the English word 'gunpowder' in Chinese script.

Fire medicine is the direct translation of the characters that form the English word 'gunpowder' in Chinese script.

The pictogram was coined around 200BC as the Chinese were attempting to unravel a medicine that would induce immortality. Now many Western chemicals firms are piling into China in a bid to at least live a little longer and to set-off the effect that the fiery medicine of competition from a low-cost well-educated workforce could inflict immediately after them. The pace of change has

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