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 On February 22, 230 years ago, the first U.S. merchant ship "Queen China" sailed from New York Port in the United States in the wind. 
After half a year of sailing, it sailed into Huangpu Port in Guangzhou on August 28, quietly opening the prelude to Sino-US trade. 
The first economic trade between China and the U.S.began.