The answer is: China.
The first system to produce paper was recorded in China during the Han dynasty (25-220 CE), while Mechanical woodstock printing began at the time of the Tang dynasty in about 220. Besides, porcelain also developed at a slow pace in China around 2,000 years ago, and the compass was invented throughout the Han dynasty, in about 206 BC, but was later used as a nativation device in the eleventh century, amid the Song dynasty.