What were some benefits and inventions that helped the people of china?

Small list of great inventions/achievements of ancient China, and various other Chinese "firsts":

- Paper

- Printing

- Compass

- Gunpowder

- Bell

- Ax

- Drum

- Beer

- Fork

- Pasta

- Oars/rowing

- Table salt

- Silk

- Rice/soybean cultivation

- Acupuncture

- Anti-malarial compounds

- Paper currency

- Various metallurgic technologies

- Blast furnace

- Mechanical belt drive

- Drilling

- Cast iron

- Accurate calendar year

- Chemical warfare

- Use of chromium

- Crossbow

- Cold-fusion steel process

- Treatment of Diabetes

- Identification and treatment of malnutrition diseases

- Endocrinology

- Various achievements in astronomy

- Various achievements in geometry and mathematics

- Exploding cannonballs

- Fireworks

- Carriage

- Fishing reel

- Horse collar/harness

- Jade

- Kite

- Landmine

- Various nautical inventions

- Match

- Natural gas as fuel

- Negative numbers

- Playing cards

- Go/Mahjong/Chinese checkers

- Porcelain

- Pound lock

- Puppet theater

- Restaurant menu

- Rotary fan

- Seismometer

- Suspension bridge

- Tea

- Use of thyroid hormones to treat goiters

- Tofu

- Toilet paper

- Toothbrush

- Catapult

- Wheelbarrow

- Discovery of circadian rhythm

- Decimal fractions

- Concept of climate change

- Music Theory

- Gaussian elimination

- Description of leprosy

- Estimate of pi

- Recognition of spontaneous combustion

- Concept of true north

- Recognition of sunspots, and various other astronomical phenomena

- Accurate description of solar eclipse