The Chinese first (make) paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces 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 (south) Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia( 斯堪的纳维亚半岛),which now makes a great deal of the (world) paper, did not begin to make it until 1500. It was a German (name) Schaeffer who found out that one could make the best paper from trees. After that, the forest countries of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States (become) the largest paper producers. Today in Finland, which makes the (good) paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest on the land. New papermaking machines are very big, and (them) make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper that is 300 metres long and 6 metres wide one minute.
When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes and writing paper. there are many other uses. Only half of the paper that is made is used for books and newspapers, etc.
