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一 |          Officials and industry leaders highlight rising demand and deeper cooperation    Soybeans, carried as ballast on the return voyage from Asia to America some 200 years ago, have become a ballast of China-U.S. agricultural trade.     Susan Thornton, former acting U.S. assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, offered the historical footnote to a room where "ballast" had already become the word of the day.    "So that kind of makes this word ballast even more, I think, essential for our U.S.-China agricultural trade," she told the gathering, organized by the U.S. Soybean Export Council, or USSEC, during its annual Soy Connext conference held in Chicago on Friday.    The event drew U.S. and Chinese officials, U.S. soy industry leaders, and a Chinese delegation of traders and representatives from oil crushing, food and feed companies.    Chinese Consul General in Chicago Wang Baodong said soybeans have served for many years "as an important bridge in China-U.S. agricultural cooperation, and the soybean trade has been a ballast of the broader part for economic and trade relationship".    China is home to the world's largest market for agricultural products, he noted, and high-quality U.S. soybeans help meet rising demand from Chinese consumers while generating income and supporting jobs in U.S. farm communities.    Those were the good old days, Wang said, recalling that 2022 marked the highest level ever for U.S. agricultural and soybean exports to China. The good old days, he added, came to an abrupt halt last year.    "The U.S. government launched the tariff and trade war against China, and China was compelled to take necessary countermeasures, and as a result, soybean trade between our two countries was disrupted for a period of time, and American farmers became a victim and bore much of the cost, which was never an outcome China wished to see," he said.    "There are no winners in tariff and trade wars," Wang said. "As we see it, equality, mutual respect, and mutual benefit remain the right way for China and the U.S. to get along with each other and achieve win-win cooperation."    Wang also pointed to the opportunity for U.S. soy farmers. This year marks the beginning of China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) period, he said, with the country advancing high-quality development and high-standard opening-up while continuing to improve its business and investment environment.    Promising prospects    As living standards keep rising, he said, Chinese demand for agricultural products from around the world, including the United States, will continue to grow. The prospects for high-quality U.S. soybean exports to China, in his view, remain promising.    Cao Derong, president of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce and Animal By-Products, or CFNA, echoed the view. "Economic and trade relations should continue to serve as the ballast and propeller of China-U.S. relations, not as barriers or flashpoints," Cao said in a video message.    The CFNA remains committed to maintaining and strengthening exchanges between the Chinese and U.S. soybean sectors, Cao said.    He said the chamber this year hosted a visiting U.S. soybean association delegation as well as representatives from the Indiana Soybean Alliance, and said he hoped to see dialogue between the two sides deepen further.    Mike McCranie, chair of USSEC, has watched that relationship grow alongside his own career. He first visited China in 1982 and raised his first soybeans 40 years ago.    "It has changed a lot since then. I have been to China five times, developing great relationships. I really value those relationships," he said.    Thornton described the trade as a "textbook case" of two economies growing into each other.    U.S. soybean yields have skyrocketed in recent decades on the back of technology and precision agriculture, she said, and that leap coincided with China's dramatic rise in living standards and a growing appetite for pork and poultry, which in turn drove the demand for livestock feed.    The United States and China operate two of the most complex food systems in the world, and she described them as highly complementary.    As major producers, consumers and traders of agricultural products, the two countries share a responsibility to ensure the global food supply remains stable, sustainable, high-quality and abundant, she said.                    。

二 |     作为秦皇岛本地人，我从小在北戴河湿地边长大。2025年，当我在燕山大学组建“鸥鸣潮声”北戴河湿地候鸟守护志愿服务队再赴湿地，才真正听懂那潮声与鸥鸣背后的意义。团队成立之初，10名骨干成员来自外国语、艺术、计算机等不同专业，大部分人甚至从未去过湿地。

三 | 大家一度心生忐忑：我们能否做好护鸟与科普？可当我们真正走进滩涂、站上讲台，顾虑便烟消云散。舞蹈专业的同学模仿候鸟展翅，用肢体演绎生命之美；文学专业的伙伴吟诵“落霞与孤鹜齐飞”，以诗意传递生态理念。团队第一次实地调研，我们在浅滩蹲守了一上午。

四 | 白鹭振翅起飞的瞬间，只听见快门声声。亲眼见证了候鸟的灵动，我开始明白，守护不只是躬身坚守，更在于理念的传递。我们把湿地变成“移动大课堂”，走进校园、社区，把护鸟理念种进更多人心田。在秦皇岛市第一中学，我们铺开候鸟迁徙路线图，让学生们手持鸟卡片模拟飞行。当“湿地被破坏”的提示出现，一个女孩着急地问：“那鸟儿没有家了怎么办？”同学们纷纷举手献策：“少用塑料袋”“不乱扔垃圾”“设立警示牌”……一颗颗生态保护的种子，在青少年心中悄然生根。为让护鸟宣传更鲜活、更走心，我们不断创新科普形式。团队打造原创舞台剧《潮声》，讲述志愿者的真实坚守；设计湿地候鸟IP形象，用美育浸润科普；研发“羽之路·北戴河”候鸟飞行棋，让生态知识在游戏中入脑入心。如今，我们与鸟类博物馆、救助站建立长期合作，常态化开展“净滩护飞”活动。团队也从最初10人，到每次活动都有二三十名志愿者报名。有人问：“项目结束了，你们还会继续吗？”我认为，志愿精神就像接力棒，从一个人传到一群人，从校园传到社会。湿地边的青春接力，将一直持续。（作者：董秦，燕山大学“鸥鸣潮声”北戴河湿地候鸟守护志愿服务队负责人）。

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