The manufacturing history of modern rifles in China can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty. According to historical records, by the 24th year of Guangxu (1898), the gun factory of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau had been able to manufacture multi-barrel guns on the basis of imitating single-shot guns such as front-loaded guns and rear-loaded guns through anatomical research. This year, the factory copied eight German 1888 muskets. The gun is1.24m long and weighs 3.75kg.. When shooting, the initial velocity is 600 meters per second, and bullets can be fired continuously. From 1898 to 1907, the gun factory of Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau * * * copied 1. 1 10,000 muskets.

During the Kuomintang government, Guangdong's arsenal copied Germany's new muskets. At first, it was an imitation 1904 6.8 mm rifle, and later it was an imitation 7.9 mm rifle.

Before the founding of New China, the rifles used by the army led by the * * * Party were decent or advanced, and most of them were obtained from the Kuomintang army and the Japanese aggressors. In accordance with Mao Zedong's strategic policy of "beheading one finger rather than ten fingers", this army persisted in fighting the war of annihilation, and every battle was able to snatch many guns from the destroyed enemy. Among these guns, the rifle is the largest. Among the rifles seized, the arsenal of the Kuomintang government copied the most rifles.