Word Count: 1,187 | Companies Featured in This Article: Baidu.com, Suntech Power Holdings, PetroChina, Lenovo Group SHANGHAI -- China's reputation for innovation has suffered a blow because of its output of fake medicine, pirated movies, unsafe food and shoddy toys. Yet the nation that invented gunpowder, paper, movable type and a basic compass is home to companies that offer surprisingly inventive products and services to the world's biggest consumer-product market by population as well as overseas. Innovation in China often means designing workable processes, more than inventing products: Think Henry Ford's assembly line, not the carbon-filament light bulb from Thomas Edison. Many of the Chinese innovation leaders identified by readers in The Wall Street Journal...
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