 China has a 5,000-year history including the earliest history of bamboo use in the world. Archaeologists have unearthed bamboo-weaving relics 5,000 years old at the ruins of Banpo village in Xian, Shanxi province. In ancient china, bamboo was used for making arrows, books, palace buildings, paper and many other items. Research into bamboo started in the Jin Dynasty.
A special book "bamboo" was written in AD265-316, in which 61 species/varieties of bamboo were recorded in detail, including descriptions of biological characteristic and cultivation techniques. However this was only the beginning of bamboo research, in the 1920’s and 1930’s further significant research was carried out and China’s bamboo industry has been developing continuously since then.
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