China's Golden Age of Renaissance

China's renaissance is known as the Golden Age and some have said it is equal to or even greater than the renaissance experienced in Europe.  During this time, the Sui Dynasty, China regained it's sense of unity unlike the Roman Empire.  A great feat to help unify Northern and Southern China was a canal system that extended over 1,200 miles.  As the Dynasties collapsed the country did not disintegrate.  The Tang and the Song dynasties only added to the unity brought on by the Sui.  Politically these dynasties built a state structure that lasted for a long time, while they also created six ministries, including personnel, finance, rites, army, justice, and public works.  These ideas can still be seen in society today.  While this was all happening, wealthy people slowly began to encroach on poor people's lands, and an economic revolution was taking place.  So since renaissance means rebirth, it is hard to say China's golden age was a renaissance since their ideas were new.  Many ideas were similar to the European renaissance and since China's is lesser known it can always be argued it had less significance on the world.