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A | 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. 。

B | 新华社北京8月24日电题：三伏过后，高温还会持续多久新华社记者刘诗平 8月24日是出伏第一天。今年三伏长达40天，较去年多出10天。“加长版”的三伏天是否更加高温炎热?出伏后“秋老虎”会出现在哪些地方?新华社记者就此采访了中国气象局相关专家。三伏越长天气越热? 三伏天是一年中气温最高、湿度最大的一段时期。三伏指初伏、中伏、末伏，今年三伏从7月15日开始到8月23日结束。国家气候中心高级工程师刘远表示，三伏的时段由二十四节气与干支计时的日期配合计算而定，每年30天或40天。

C | 最近10年，除2025年是30天之外，其余年份均为40天。 “三伏的长短，与当年气温高低没有因果关系。”刘远说，高温天气的多少和强度，主要受副热带高压、大气环流、台风及地形等因素影响。三伏天较长，只意味着伏期跨度较大，并不能据此判断高温天气一定更多。今年是否更热? 高温是阶段性天气过程，并非三伏为40天就更加炎热。

D | 不过，今年三伏期间，受厄尔尼诺事件等多种因素影响，气温整体确实较常年偏高，高温天数有所增多，北方地区高温极端性突出。

E | 国家气候中心监测显示，今年三伏期间，全国平均高温天数为6.1天，较常年同期的4.4天多出1.7天。其中，辽宁高温天数为1961年以来第二多，天津、新疆、内蒙古均为1961年以来第三多。监测同时显示，三伏天高温集中在三大区域：新疆及内蒙古西部、四川盆地、长江中下游至江南一带。

F | 刘远表示，三伏天期间，北方地区高温极端性突出，全国有50个国家气象站日最高气温达到或突破历史极值，主要分布在新疆、甘肃、山东、吉林、辽宁等5个省份。处暑到入秋有多久? 8月23日是二十四节气中的处暑，也是末伏的最后一天。处暑意为暑气渐退、秋意将至。处暑和出伏，我国有些地方的天气由盛夏闷热转向清秋凉爽。但是，秋天的第一个节气立秋和第二个节气处暑，均不能算“入秋”。按照气候季节划分标准，一地连续5天日平均气温稳定降至22℃及以下，为气象学上的“入秋”。处暑到入秋需要多久?各地有所不同。北京市气象局分析北京观象台1961年至2025年间处暑日和气候入秋日的气温观测数据后发现，每年处暑后平均仍有近8天的气温高于30℃，距离稳定入秋平均要再等待16天，且这个过渡期在不断拉长，越靠近距今近的年份，等待秋凉的时间越长。

G | 夏季延长、秋季推迟，已成为北京乃至华北地区气候变化的显著特征。哪里会出现“秋老虎”? 出伏不等于暑消，三伏虽已过去，“秋老虎”依然会在一些地方出现。

H | 气象上说的“秋老虎”，指立秋或处暑后短期回热的天气现象，主要出现在处暑节气后，多出现在8月底至9月。我国地域广大，南北方出伏后的降温节奏各不相同。中央气象台首席预报员陈双预计，出伏后，四川盆地、江汉等地将有高温天气出现，上述地区仍需关注“秋老虎”天气。陈双表示，四川盆地的高温天气仍将持续，预计到27日前后有所缓解。与此同时，江汉、江南的高温天气有所发展，其余大部地区无明显高温天气。