On June 19, US secretary of commerce Carlos Gutierrez held a cruise-boat dinner in Washington DC, giving the red-carpet treatment to the first 240 mainland Chinese tourists allowed to travel in the States purely for recreation, in the hopes of leaving these honored guests with a good impression of the US.
6 月 19 日，美國商務部長古提瑞茲在華府舉辦遊艇晚宴，以紅地毯歡迎 240 名首發赴美的大陸旅遊團，希望這批貴客能對美國留下好印象。