Chinese paper was first made from [originaltext] The Chinese first made paper

The Chinese first made paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces of paper which were made as long ago as that. But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. It was made from the hair-like parts of certain plants.
    Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia—which now makes a great deal of the world’s paper—did not begin to make it until 1500. It was a German named Schaeffer who found out that we could make the best paper from trees. After that, the forest countries of Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States became the most important in paper making. Today in Finland, which makes the best paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest in the land. New paper, making machines are very big, and they make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper 300 meters long and 6 meters wide in one minute.
    When we think of paper, we think of newspaper, books, letters, envelopes, and writing paper. But only half of the paper that is made is used for books and newspapers, etc.