Just to add to this, you also need an agricultural revolution to go with the industrial revolution, otherwise the first would just not get off the ground. More exactly, you need to be able to feed more and more urban people (who presumably work in industry) using less and less rural people (who presumably work in agriculture). England also had a mini-agricultural revolution accompanying its first industrial revolution, that’s why the gentleman farmer had become a thing.
If you don’t have that you risk your industry thing to not take off, because living in the town/city is too expensive because of the lack of food or because of its high relative costs, or you might try and do what Stalin did when he industrialized the USSR in the 1930s, that is force millions of peasants to die of hunger in order to feed the city folk.
China did have an agricultural revolution however in the the 1600 to 1700s which cause a very rapid population growth. And even before that Chinese agriculture was far more efficient than European agriculture: They could grow multiple times through the year, the had seed drills and better plows. In terms of agriculture they were far ahead.
What they lacked was the conditions and incentives to make large number of mills. Thus with fewer mills, one did not develop the same machine focus in China as in the West.
If you don’t have that you risk your industry thing to not take off, because living in the town/city is too expensive because of the lack of food or because of its high relative costs, or you might try and do what Stalin did when he industrialized the USSR in the 1930s, that is force millions of peasants to die of hunger in order to feed the city folk.