Shantou, one of the four cities under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is a special economic zone, an important port city in the southeast coast and a central city in eastern Guangdong. The climate is mild all year round, with plenty of heat, sunshine and rainfall.
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In the pre-Qin period, Guangdong belonged to South Vietnam. In 222 BC, after Ying Zheng, king of Qin, unified the six countries, he sent Tu Youyou to lead 500,000 Qin Jun to attack Lingnan. In 2 14 BC, Qin Jun basically occupied Lingnan. Immediately, Qin Shihuang set up three counties of "Guilin, Elephant and Nanhai" in the Lingnan area captured by Qin Shihuang. Nanhai county includes a part of eastern Guangdong, northern Guangdong, central Guangdong and western Guangdong. Most of Guangdong Province belongs to Nanhai County, and Shantou belongs to Jieyang County of Nanhai County.
Shantou City, in the north of Shantou City, was a coastal alluvial land in ancient times, and there were Lingju temples in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. In Song Dynasty, Shawei (now Jinsha Township) had formed a settlement, and there were also residents in Gounan and Yuzhou. In the third year of Song Xuanhe (12 1 1), Jieyang County was under its jurisdiction when it moved its capital. Haojiang in the south was the capital of Chaoyang County in ancient times, and Shapu was added in the Song Dynasty. At this time, the recruits and Shapu are still under the jurisdiction of Chaoyang County.
During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Shantou Fort was built in Chaozhou, which was called Shantou for short during the reign of Yongzheng. Shantou is known as the "century-old commercial port". In April of the eighth year of Xianfeng (1858), the British and French allied forces that had occupied Guangzhou advanced on Dagukou, and the American ambassador to China, together with the British, French and Russian ambassadors, arrived outside Dagu, making a note to the Qing government and demanding aggression. 19 in may, the United States suspended the ongoing negotiations at the request of Britain because the British and French Coalition forces were going to attack the next day. After the British and French allied forces captured Dagu, the Qing government sent Gui Liang, Hua Shana and others to negotiate with Britain and France.
On June 7th, American Ambassador Levi Lian resumed talks with Qing officials and agreed to renegotiate the draft treaty proposed by the US. 18 In June, the United States defeated the British, French and Qing governments and signed the Sino-US Tianjin Treaty. Among them, Chaozhou (later changed to Shantou) and Tainan were added as trading ports.