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A | 这个夏天的周末夜晚，武林广场有点不一样：广场变身繁华大客厅——“音乐任意门”里歌声飞扬，“楼BA”赛场上灌篮高手激战正酣，夜市里的小生意忙碌红火……下班后，许多人在这里找到了舒适的生活“姿势”。这升腾的烟火气，既展现出城市夜生活的蓬勃活力，也彰显着城市治理的精细与温情。 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. 。“音乐任意门” 普通人也能站上城市C位8月7日晚上7点半，“下班以后”乐队在武林广场准时开唱，带来的是赵雷歌曲专场。数位素不相识的年轻人带着露营桌椅以及小吃、饮料聚起来，在广场一角摆开了“龙门阵”。“我已经连续来了好几次了，能在杭州的繁华中心听音乐会，氛围太好了。

B | 你瞧，‘八少女’也在跳舞、伴奏，这里办音乐会太合适了。”来自湖南的小盛是一位博士生，目前在钱塘区一家企业实习，他指着流光溢彩的“八少女”音乐喷泉笑道。从浙江展览馆南广场到“八少女”音乐喷泉周围，观众密密麻麻站了一片，连广场的阶梯上都坐满了人。夏夜的晚风褪去了白天的炙热，带着一丝凉爽，但大家的热情却点燃了整个广场。在这里，音乐成了一扇“任意门”，推开门就能陶醉在民谣的旋律里。据悉，这场演出是浙江省文化馆和拱墅区文商旅集团共同打造的“文艺赋美·音乐任意门”活动之一。从今年5月1日开始，每周五和周末，武林广场的“八少女”音乐喷泉前都会准时响起歌声。

C | 本次赵雷歌曲专场吸引了千余人观赏。正式演出从晚上7点半开始到10点结束，但是许多歌迷意犹未尽，不愿离去。自发的“开放麦”活动，持续到晚上11点才散场。浙江省文化馆工作人员介绍，“音乐任意门”打破了专业舞台的壁垒，不设身份、不限职业，让民间音乐爱好者、普通人都能站上城市C位。磁石效应老牌商圈焕发新活力今年夏天，武林广场上除了“音乐任意门”的演出，还有杭州市商务社区街头篮球武林争霸赛新赛季的回归。80支来自辖区楼宇、企业的球队在这里集结，每周五至周日晚上在武林广场展开对决，将持续到9月中旬。原本属于年轻人的街头篮球，成了全城参与的夏夜狂欢。

D | “八少女”音乐喷泉周围，“球个好市”同步开张。来自山西的小王在武林广场上卖冰绿豆汤、沙冰等夏日冰饮，他说，“每次有乐队演出，我的生意就会好很多，有时一个小时能卖300多元。”有歌听、有球看、有市集逛——武林广场上，没有人会空手而归。

E | 以武林广场为圆心，音乐、篮球、市集像磁石一样吸引着大量人气，进而为周边的五大商场带来实实在在的消费客流。今年以来，“音乐任意门”已经办了20余场；杭州女子半程马拉松期间，天水街道联动商圈酒店推出选手专属服务，酒店入住率同比提升30%，商圈3天客流突破80万人次、同比增长45%；全国服务消费季暨“味美浙江”食在杭州餐饮消费欢乐市集活动，武林商圈销售额超2亿元、同比增长35.8%，人流量135.3万人次、同比增长47.4%。