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  "id": 12617,
  "url": "https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1018703/The%20Soybean%20That%20Built%20Northeast%20China",
  "title": "The Soybean That Built Northeast China",
  "summary": "Long before China imported soybeans from Brazil and the United States, the crop powered the country’s economy in the northeast, shaping industry, empire, and the fate of many small towns.",
  "authors": "Wang Hanyang",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us,china,latam",
  "published_at": "2026-07-21T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-22T05:10:49.469Z",
  "source_slug": "x-sixth-tone-cn",
  "source_name": "Sixth Tone (CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.sixthtone.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12617",
  "original_url": "https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1018703/The%20Soybean%20That%20Built%20Northeast%20China",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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