Soybeans are a major source of protein in many vegetarian diets.
大豆是许多素食饮食中蛋白质的主要来源。
The farmer decided to rotate his crops this year, planting
soybeans after the wheat harvest.
农民决定今年轮作作物，小麦收获后种植大豆。
Soybean milk has become a popular alternative to dairy milk for those who are lactose intolerant.
对于乳糖不耐受的人来说，豆浆已成为牛奶的热门替代品。
Researchers have found that
soybeans contain isoflavones, which may have health benefits.
研究人员发现，大豆含有异黄酮，可能对健康有益。
The processing plant extracts oil from
soybeans to produce various food products and biofuels.
加工厂从大豆中提取油，用于生产各种食品和生物燃料。
Soybeans are native to East Asia but are now cultivated worldwide due to their versatility.
大豆原产于东亚，但由于其多用途性，现在全球都有种植。
A recent study suggests that including
soybeans in your diet can help lower cholesterol levels.
最近的一项研究表明，在饮食中加入大豆有助于降低胆固醇水平。
The chef used tofu, made from
soybeans, as a key ingredient in the vegetarian stir-fry.
厨师在素食炒菜中使用了主要由大豆制成的豆腐作为关键食材。
Soybeans are rich in nutrients like fiber, vitamins, and minerals essential for a balanced diet.
大豆富含纤维、维生素和矿物质等营养素，是均衡饮食所必需的。
The increase in demand for plant-based proteins has led to a surge in
soybean cultivation globally.
对植物性蛋白质需求的增加导致全球大豆种植量激增。
Soybean Seed & Traits business expanded in Latin America thanks to higher volumes and prices.
由于产量和价格的上涨，大豆种子和性状业务在拉丁美洲扩张。
Sales at Soybean Seed & Traits were level with the prior-year period (Fx & portfolio adj.
大豆种子和性状的销售额与上年同期持平（Fx和投资组合调整。
"All divisions successfully launched innovations last year, with Baumann naming the Kerendia™ kidney disease drug, Intacta 2 Xtend™ soybean seeds and the Bepanthen™ Derma skincare product as examples.
“去年，所有部门都成功推出了创新，Baumann以Kerendia™肾病药物、Intacta 2 Xtend™大豆种子和Bepanhen™Derma护肤品为例。
Bayer grew sales by double-digit percentages at Herbicides (15.4 percent), Fungicides (13.8 percent) and Soybean Seed & Traits (14.9 percent) on a currency-and portfolio-adjusted basis.
经货币和投资组合调整后，拜耳在除草剂（15.4%）、杀菌剂（13.8%）和大豆种子与性状（14.9%）方面的销售额增长了两位数。
Soybean Seed & Traits benefited from higher volumes and prices, particularly in North America and Latin America.
大豆种子和性状受益于更高的产量和价格，特别是在北美和拉丁美洲。
As global agri-food systems are facing multiple challenges and increasingly complex risks such as climate change and natural resource degradation, China Grain Reserves Group Ltd (Sinograin), the country's largest grain storage and transportation company, will import 8.4 million metric tons of soybeans from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, further diversifying the country's soybean import sources.
随着全球农产品系统面临气候变化和自然资源退化等多重挑战和日益复杂的风险，中国最大的粮食储运公司中国粮食储备集团有限公司（中粮集团）将从巴西、阿根廷和乌拉圭进口840万公吨大豆，使该国大豆进口来源进一步多样化。
China enlarged its soybean import sources to maintain the country's grain security.
中国扩大大豆进口来源，以维护国家粮食安全。
Plant-based food company Green Monday launched a new product series called OmniSeafood, which features "fish" and "crab meat" made from soybean and peas, in Shanghai on Aug 23.
8月23日，植物性食品公司Green Monday在上海推出了一款名为OmniSeafood的新产品系列，该系列包含以大豆和豌豆为原料制成的“鱼肉”和“蟹肉”。
The new plant will double its capacity to supply soybean meal and refined vegetable oils to eastern China.
这家新工厂将把产能翻一番，以供应大豆粕和精炼植物油到中国东部地区。
With production facilities in oilseed crushing, apple juice crushing and sugar refinery sectors across the country, LDC also imports agriculture products such as soybean and sugar into China.
LDC在中国拥有涉及油籽压榨、苹果汁压榨和糖业炼制等行业的生产设施，同时也进口大豆和糖等农产品进入中国市场。
The businesses of the top 10 home appliance enterprises cover air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, soybean milk makers, kitchen ventilators, microwave ovens, robot vacuum cleaners and more.
He said Cargill hopes to double its investment in China over the next five years, especially in areas such as poultry, soybean crushing, food ingredients and animal protein production, in addition to bio-industry related business and the training of farmers.
他说，嘉吉公司计划在未来五年内将其在中国的投资翻一番，特别是在家禽、大豆压榨、食品配料和动物蛋白生产等领域，以及与生物产业相关的业务和农民培训方面。
As the world's biggest edible oil market by consumption volume, China consumes not only a range of edible oils (like those made from corn, sunflower, soybean, rapeseed, peanut, groundnut) but also millions of metric tons of edible blended oil.
Similarly, blended peanut oil has less than 2 percent of it, with the rest being cheaper soybean oil and rapeseed oil.
In addition to supplying blended edible oil, it also produces corn oil, sunflower seed oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil and soybean oil.
Lu Xiaodong, deputy general manager of Sinograin, said the group will continue to adapt to new international economic and trade conditions, and actively adjust its source for soybean imports, as well as further expand the scale of soybean procurement in South America as it has become a mature and stable trade market channel for its global business.
Other Sinograin's partners such as Japan's Marubeni Corp, ADM Co and Bunge Ltd from the US, also signed the soybean supply deals during the signing ceremony on Wednesday.
With a daily soybean crushing capacity of 4,000 metric tons and a daily oil refining capacity of 1,200 metric tons, the plant will bolster the group's supply of soybean meal, crude soybean oil and refined edible vegetable oil to meet the needs of partners and consumers in China.
The group also expanded its product line, launching a soybean milk at the end of 2017.
The cutting-edge technologies used by Tus-Clean Energy to convert poor quality soybean oil into biodiesel amazed local entrepreneurs and experts, he said.
Its soybean and corn seed genetics also have a strong presence in South America and other international markets.
The seed company is now cooperating in both corn and soybean research with several Chinese companies.
The deal draws a more direct link between a large Chinese food importer and farmers in the world's largest corn exporter and second biggest soybean exporter.
Growmark hopes to solidify ties to a huge market in China, the world's top soybean importer and major buyer of other agricultural goods.
Zhang Xiaoping, director for China at the US Soybean Export Council, said ChemChina could use Syngenta's rich experience and resources in intellectual property, risk control and environmental management to bring its products to global markets.
Ge Junjie, deputy chairman, said during Brazil-China Agri-Food Cooperation Forum held in Shanghai on Tuesday that Peng Xin will set up a soybean production factory in Brazil with an annual capacity of 10 million metric tons by the end of this year.
在周二于上海举行的中巴农业食品合作论坛上，副董事长葛俊杰表示，彭欣将在今年年底前在巴西建立一家大豆生产工厂，年产能达1000万吨。
The soybean factory will be Peng Xin's third major investment in Brazil in two years.
大豆工厂将是彭新在过去两年中在巴西的第三项重大投资。
Laoganma Special Flavor Foodstuffs Co in Guiyang's Nanming district produces a variety of popular sauces such as oil chili, beef soybean and flavored chili chicken.
Zhang Xiaoping, director for China at the US Soybean Export Council, said China could use Syngenta's deep experience and resources in intellectual property, risk control and environmental management to bring its products to global markets.
"Canada is rich in commodity goods including copper ore, nickel ore, iron ore, petroleum, wheat, soybean and other agricultural products.
Geng Guoqing / for China DailyFeihe Dairy – a leading producer and distributer of infant formula, milk powder and soybean products – has had expediential growth in the past year, increasing 80 percent in sales in 2016.
China is likely to import 30 million metric tons of soybeans from the United States in the latter's 2024 marketing year (Sept 1, 2023 to Aug 31, 2024), matching the amount imported in the previous marketing year, the US Soybean Export Council predicted on Tuesday.
Rezac predicted that China's overall demand for soybeans will drive continued growth in the US' soybean trade.
From the 2024 marketing year to the 2033 marketing year, China's total soybean imports, including those from the US, are expected to rise from 101.5 million tons to 134.1 million tons, an average annual growth rate of 3.1 percent.
"Lance Rezac, vice-chairman of the US Soybean Export Council, said it has always firmly believed that the Chinese and US economies are deeply intertwined, and that there is a great deal of potential for cooperation.
Rezac predicted that China's demand for soybeans will drive continued growth in the US' soybean trade.
From the 2024 marketing year to the 2033 marketing year, China's soybean imports are expected to rise from 101.5 million metric tons to 134.1 million tons, an average annual growth rate of 3.1 percent.
Data from the US Department of Agriculture show that China's soybean imports from the US totaled 31.5 million tons in the 2023 marketing year — which ran from September last year to August — accounting for 59 percent of US annual soybean exports, a rise of 2.3 percent year-on-year.
In terms of intensifying its investment and trade cooperation in other BRICS economies, the company has been bolstering the construction of soybean crushing plants, refining facilities, sugar mills, ports and silos, as part of its processing and logistics infrastructure development in these four countries, Lyu said.
From Aug 7 to Aug 13, the wholesale prices of grain and oil fluctuated slightly, with rice, soybean oil and rapeseed oil down 0.2 percent, 0.2 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
In July alone, the country's soybean imports reached 9.73 million tons, down from 10.27 million tons in June but more than the 7.88 million tons imported in the same month last year, according to data from the General Administration of Customs.
The per-tonne value of the soybean imports increased 1.3 percent year-on-year in the first seven months to 4,334.6 yuan ($605.39).
The country, as the world's largest soybean importer, imported a total of 91.08 million tons of soybeans last year.
"We used the money to purchase soybean pulp, brown rice and other raw materials for broiler feed.
He added that the current growth of corn, middle-season rice, soybean, and other major autumn crops is the same as last year.
Meanwhile, China will greatly increase the capacity of soybean and oil crops and promote the combined planting of corn and soybeans, while increasing subsidies for rotation of arable land and incentives for counties that are large producers of edible oils, it said.
The minimum price the government pays to purchase rice and wheat will be increased, and subsidies for corn and soybean producers will be made more stable, it added.
Nearly one hundred representatives from industrial associations and companies, including the US Soybean Export Council, Bayer, and Louis Dreyfus Company, took part in the webinar.
Major exports included mechanical and electrical products, while imports of iron ore sands and soybean saw robust growth.
Exports of mechanical and electrical products and imports of iron ore and soybean reported significant growth.
The US Soybean Export Council (USSEC) organized 13 member firms to participate in the ongoing fourth China International Import Expo (CIIE), in Shanghai.
The current US soybean exports to China have emerged from a grim situation following the US-initiated trade frictions, with the volume of US soybean exports to China this year expected to exceed that of the last, Zhang noted.
Although the main indexes of the country's industrial production, investment and consumption have stayed in a moderate recovery range since January, prices of key commodities like iron ore and copper ore as well as soybean rose 53.5 percent, 28 percent and 11.1 percent year-on-year, respectively, in the first quarter.
Its import volume of crude oil surged 60.5 percent year-on-year, while soybean imports registered a solid annual growth of 33.2 percent.
Shanghai has undergone fundamental changes over last few decades due in part to China's opening-up policies, said Stan Born, Chairman of the US Soybean Export Council.
He added that American soybean farmers have also contributed to the city's prosperity.
Jim Sutter, CEO of the US Soybean Export Council, said that big countries such as China and the US are bound to have differences at the high level.
SinoGrain, China's State-owned importer, reportedly purchased 600,000 metric tons of soybean from its US supplier on Nov 7.
This was the largest single-day soybean purchase by the world's top soybean importer since late July.
Because people have placed greater emphasis on health and quality of life, products with sterilization and disinfection functions are seeing a significant increase in sales, according to Si Zhenming, brand director of Joyoung, a Chinese home appliance manufacturer and soybean milk machine maker.
Hog prices were down by 1.4 percent, and soybean prices gained 0.9 percent.
The country's grain output is expected to reach 694 million tonnes in 2023, with the output of rice and wheat remaining stable and that of corn and soybean increasing, according to a report released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on the outlook of China's agricultural sector.
A drinking water dispenser, an air heater and a soybean milk maker were all accessible in the kitchen through a smart app.
Eight soybean-related futures and options, including No 1 Soybean, No 2 soybean, soybean meal and soybean oil, are officially open to foreign traders at the Dalian Commodity Exchange on Monday in Dalian, Liaoning province.
"It is the first time for the DCE to introduce overseas traders in the full soybean commodities," said Fang Xinghai, vice chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission, in a video message.
According to Yan Shaoming, general manager of the DCE, opening-up will help link the global soybean production, processing and trade systems more closely, give full play to China's advantages of its super-large market size, and transmit in a timely manner the market trend information of China through its future pricing.
"It will also strengthen the internal impetus of the global soybean industry entities to arrange production and operation by more actively referring to the Chinese market," said Yan.
Heilongjiang, China's largest soybean-producing province, set new records in 2022 in terms of soybean output and planting area, statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show.
Heilongjiang yielded 9.54 billion kilograms of soybeans this year, up 32.6 percent year-on-year and accounting for 47 percent of the country's total soybean output.
The sown soybean area in the province hit 73.98 million mu ($4.93 million hectares), up 26.9 percent year-on-year.
"To ensure national food security, Heilongjiang has been increasing its soybean yield through a string of measures such as improving varieties and field management techniques.
Heilongjiang's grain output this year was its second-highest in history, lower than last year mainly due to a significant increase in its low-yielding soybean area and the adjustment of its grain-growing structure.
Heilongjiang is the largest soybean-producing area in China, with its soybean planting area accounting for more than 40 percent of the country's total.
This year, it will expand its soybean planting area by more than 10 million mu.
Xu, 55, has cultivated soybean varieties for more than three decades, spending 10 years producing the Qihuang 34 variety, which can be grown on soil with a relatively low level of salinity, and on ordinary soil.
"A soybean variety is typically resistant to one to three diseases, but Qihuang 34 is resistant to six diseases, making it more productive," Xu said.
Xu said the protein content of a Qihuang 34 soybean is 45.13 percent and the fat content 22.48 percent.
"There is a serious shortage of soybean seeds that can be grown in salt-affected soil.
China relies heavily on soybean imports, and they normally constitute more than 80 percent of domestic soybean consumption.
Soybean prices in China basically follow the fluctuations in international prices.
Since 2021, price transmission from the global soybean market to the domestic soybean market is between 85 percent and 100 percent.
Consumers under the age of 35 account for 55 percent of total users, while shoppers aged over 46 take up 24 percent, and prefer to buy daily necessities such as soybean oil, the report noted.
- China will strive to expand soybean production in an effort to keep grain output stable amid concerns of a global food crisis, the country's top economic planner said Tuesday.
China has pledged to safeguard grain security and protect farmland, make down-to-earth structural adjustments, expand the planting of soybean and oil crops, as well as ensure the supplies of pork, vegetables and other agricultural and sideline products, according to the annual central rural work conference held in December last year.
去年12月举行的中央农村工作会议提出，中国承诺保障粮食安全，保护耕地，实实在在地进行结构调整，扩大大豆和油料作物种植，并确保猪肉、蔬菜以及其他农产品和副产品的供应。
Genetically modified corn and soybean involved in a pilot program have obtained safety certificates for production and application after an assessment of food and environmental safety that lasted nearly 10 years.
经过近10年的食品安全和环境安全评估，参与试点项目的转基因玉米和大豆已获得生产和应用的安全证书。
"The application of traits that resist pests and tolerate herbicides and drought has improved the competitiveness of genetically modified crops, such as corn and soybean, in production cost, price and quality," Qian Qian, director of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences' Institute of Crop Sciences, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency.
中国农业科学院作物科学研究所所长钱前在接受新华社采访时表示：“抗虫、耐除草剂和耐旱等性状的应用已提高了转基因作物（如玉米和大豆）在生产成本、价格和质量方面的竞争力。”
Li Xiangju, a researcher at the academy's Institute of Plant Protection, said the results of the pilot program show that the GM soybean varieties perform better as only one spray of herbicide can achieve over 95 percent of the weeding for those varieties.
中国农业科学院植物保护研究所研究员李向菊表示，试点项目的结果显示，转基因大豆品种表现更优，仅需喷洒一次除草剂，就能实现这些品种超过95%的除草效果。
The pilot project found that GM soybean can reduce weeding costs by 50 percent and increase yields by 12 percent, while GM corn can see yield increases of 6.7 to 10.7 percent.
该试点项目发现，转基因大豆能够减少50%的除草成本，并提高12%的产量；而转基因玉米则能实现6.7%至10.7%的增产效果。
Liu Biao, a researcher at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment's Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, said the GM corn and soybean in the pilot program had no negative effects on beneficial insects and soil quality.
生态环境部南京环境科学研究所的研究员刘彪表示，试点项目中的转基因玉米和大豆对益虫和土壤质量没有产生负面影响。
"The decreased use of pesticides on GM corn boosts ecological and environmental safety," Liu said, adding that using the same herbicide on GM soybean and corn can help intercropping and rotation of the two crops.
刘（Liu）表示：“转基因玉米上农药使用的减少提升了生态和环境安全性。”他补充道，在转基因大豆和玉米上使用相同的除草剂有助于这两种作物的间作和轮作。
Last year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs launched pilot industrialization projects for genetically modified soybean and corn.
Liu Peilei, an official with the ministry, said the achievements in the pilot program mark China's move into the industrialization of GM corn and soybean.
"Promoting the industrialization of GM corn and soybean will break the bottleneck of agricultural production," Liu said at a news conference last month.
Liu said the GM soybean and corn have excellent traits and can compete with similar overseas products.
Four GM corn varieties and three GM soybean varieties have obtained safety certificates for production and application.
China produced 19.6 million metric tons of soybean last year while importing 100.3 million tons, according to the General Administration of Customs.
Customers can now order chicken rolls, preserved egg and pork congee, soybean milk, deep-fried dough sticks and boiled skewers, which are typical Chinese food, at KFC outlets in China.
In Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, Li Fuqiang, 38, has stored enough fertilizer and soybean seeds for spring plowing.
在东北黑龙江省，38岁的李富强已经为春耕储备了足够的肥料和大豆种子。
Li, who was awarded the title of "Soybean Master" in the province in 2018 for planting quality soybeans, plans to sow 3,333 hectares of non-GMO quality soybean this year.
李，在2018年因种植优质大豆而被该省授予“大豆大师”称号，计划今年播种3,333公顷非转基因优质大豆。
Heilongjiang is China's largest soybean-producing region, accounting for about half the country's total soybean acreage.
Heilongjiang是中国最大的大豆生产区，占全国大豆种植面积的约一半。