During the Ming and Qing dynasties the Chinese government encouraged technological innovation as a foundation of economic strength. True False

False

Explanation:

During the Ming and qing dynasty the Chinese government never encouraged technological innovation as a foundation of economic strength because of their ruling ideology they were unwilling to take any institution nor principles behind government in their idea of reform and as a result China never develop its own capability of technological reform which could have failed because of conservative forces ingrained in their culture