<p><div class="image-container float_right" style="width:900px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/515362f6ecad04364b000000-2507-1877/chinese-submarine-3.jpg?maxX=900" border="0" alt="Chinese submarine 3" width="900" /></div><p class="source">REUTERS/Stringer</p><p class="caption">Zhang Wuyi sits in his newly made multi-seater submarine at his new workshop near an artificial pool in Wuhan, Hubei province, November 14, 2012.</p></div>It's widely recognized that American inventors such as Alexander Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford helped turn the American dream into a reality.</p>
<p>Nowadays many inventors are coming from a different economic juggernaut — <keyword id="1334" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="China">China</keyword>. According to China Daily, <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-02/27/content_16259027.htm">210,000 invention patents were given out in the country last year</a>, a 25% increase over 2011.</p>
<p>In this slideshow we've included pictures from China's DIY inventors: industrious men and women inventing in their backyard.</p>

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23 Badass Inventions Made By Ordinary Chinese People

REUTERS/StringerZhang Wuyi sits in his newly made multi-seater submarine at his new workshop near an artificial pool in Wuhan, Hubei province, November 14, 2012.It's widely recognized that American inventors such as Alexander Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford helped turn the American dream into a reality. Nowadays many inventors are coming from a different economic juggernaut — China. According to China Daily, 210,000 invention patents were given out in the country last year, a 25% increase over 2011. In this slideshow we've included pictures from China's DIY inventors: industrious men and women inventing in their backyard.

REUTERS/StringerZhang Wuyi sits in his newly made multi-seater submarine at his new workshop near an artificial pool in Wuhan, Hubei province, November 14, 2012. It's widely recognized that American inventors such as Alexander Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford helped turn the American dream into a reality.

23 Badass Inventions Made By Ordinary Chinese People

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