Peanut was introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty. 1492, Columbus discovered America, which aroused Europeans' attention to this so-called "new continent". After the success of American colonization, in the late/kloc-6th century, the Spanish established a colony in the Philippines in South Asia, and some American crops began to be introduced into the Philippines, and then spread from the Philippines to all parts of Southeast Asia and further to China.

American crops introduced to China include corn, sweet potato, potato, cassava, pumpkin, peanut, sunflower, pepper, tomato, kidney bean, Lima bean, western apple, pineapple, annona, guava and avocado.