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A |     最近几天，中美两大超级大国都遭遇巨大的自然灾害侵袭，我国是西藏地区日喀则发生6.8级大地震，造成126人遇难，188人受伤，倒塌房屋3609户，转移受灾群众3.04万人，无论是从人员伤亡，还是经济角度，都是一次不小的损失。    

    Young student athletes compete during the Shijingshan District Primary and Secondary School Football League in Beijing on May 28, 2026. Photo: Li Hao/GTOn youth soccer pitches across China this World Cup summer, one match often seemed to give way immediately to the next. Coaches shifted cones, parents raised phones behind the fence, and children in numbered bibs warmed up along the touchline while the previous teams were still packing away their gear.
It was a busy school break. The national finals of the 2025-26 youth campus soccer league, rounds of the fifth China Youth Football League, city and provincial campus competitions, private club cups and overseas invitationals filled the calendar. Some children played close to home; others spent part of their summer travelling with teammates from one tournament to another.
The sixth 2034 Cup was among the most visible. Its 39 regional qualifiers drew 882 teams and 12,604 players, with 128 teams reaching the finals in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu Province. Teams from other countries also took part, adding an international element to a tournament aimed at primary-school players, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
Does this crowded calendar by itself signal a turnaround for Chinese soccer? China's men last reached the World Cup in 2002. But the summer offered a view of a playing base being built from below and raised a harder question: Can the enthusiasm survive the return to school, unequal access to training and the growing costs borne by families?
From the first touch
In China's youth soccer system, coach Zhao Xinxin works at its broadest and most fundamental level - introducing young children to the game.
He coaches an introductory group of about 15 three-year-olds, three interest classes of 15 to 20 children aged five to 10, and four advanced groups of roughly 10 players aged five to 14. He has worked with more than 100 children over the years.
Starting younger is one of the clearest changes Zhao has observed in recent years. Soccer is appearing not only in schools and social clubs but also in some kindergartens. Most parents initially want an after-school activity that gets their kid moving. 
Only when a player begins to stand out do questions about more advanced training and a possible route forward arise.
That route now has several layers. A child in a commercial club can move from introductory and interest classes to advanced teams. A school player may be selected for district and city teams, then enter national campus competitions; professional academies, sports schools and social clubs provide other pathways. 
China began promoting campus soccer on a national scale in 2015, when six government departments issued guidelines calling for soccer to be incorporated into school education through designated soccer schools, regular competitions, teacher training and improved facilities, according to the Ministry of Education.
The program has continued to expand while shifting its focus from increasing participation to improving the quality of teaching, training and competition. In 2025, another 4,928 schools were recognized as national youth campus soccer schools, according to the ministry.
The result is more soccer on the calendar. Zhao told the Global Times that youth matches take place somewhere in Beijing almost every week, especially during school holidays. His club's advanced teams play weekend fixtures with referees and standings, as well as regional competitions and finals.
Tournaments such as the 2034 Cup give this broad base a visible target. Soccer commentator and youth-project organizer Dong Lu launched the event in 2021 after repeatedly seeing Chinese social media celebrate Japan's high-school soccer tournament. Its name looks toward the 2034 World Cup, when the first group of participants will be about 25. 
Earlier this summer, a team selected through Dong's youth soccer project offered another source of encouragement. The Chinese Football Boy U12 team won all seven matches at the Sigismondi International Youth Cup in Italy, becoming the first Asian team to claim the championship.
Yet Dong cautioned against reading too much into a single championship. Strong players, he said, must emerge from a much broader soccer culture. "Players come from the people around us, from the soil and culture in which they grow," he told the Global Times. 
Who can keep playing?
    A coach walks his young players to the pitch for a soccer tournament in Beijing. Photo: Li Hao/GTYet the larger test begins after the tournament. Dong acknowledged that most 2034 Cup participants will not become professional players. For many, reaching the finals in Suzhou may serve as a "soccer graduation ceremony" at the end of primary school. The question is whether graduation from primary school must also mean graduation from soccer.
For Zhao, the first major break comes at 12. Children may train throughout primary school, then stop after entering middle school as homework, examinations and family expectations take over - a pattern he calls "retiring at 12."
Campus soccer should be the main way to keep the player pool broad, he said, because school is where nearly every child spends most of the day. More schools now provide soccer classes and in-class competitions, but implementation varies. 
Zhao recalled a class tournament in which a child was injured. After a parent complained, the remaining matches were cancelled. Safety concerns are understandable, he said, but cancelling competition altogether removes opportunities from every child.
For families, this is also the stage when soccer stops being a simple extracurricular activity. If a child has shown unusual ability, parents must decide whether to seek stronger teams, change schools, accept more travel and training, or keep soccer only as an interest. The decision depends not only on talent and the child's wishes, but also on educational expectations and how much time and money the household can commit.
The contrast with Europe lies partly in continuity. Zhao cited his nephew in Hungary, who trained at a Barcelona-affiliated academy between the ages of six and eight before being selected by a local club at nine. 
Once children join organized training there, he said, they are registered at relatively low cost, and their movement between clubs is recorded in the soccer association's system - closer to transferring schools than simply leaving one commercial course for another.
Dong made a broader comparison. Japan's national team increasingly draws on players who have further developed further in European leagues, while China still relies mainly on its domestic league to prepare future internationals. 
In his view, the two systems operate like production lines with different competitive standards. Young Chinese players therefore need more high-level matches, whether foreign teams come to China, Chinese teams travel abroad or selected players enter overseas leagues.
But overseas training cannot substitute for a domestic system, nor is it open to every family. Zhao said it requires ability, physical readiness, money and the capacity to adapt to a different language, diet and daily life. Some parents send a child abroad; others move with them, reorganizing work and family life around soccer without knowing whether the child will ever turn professional.
For now, the most telling test may come not in 2034, but this coming September, when a child enters a new grade and decides whether there is still time in the week for soccer.
。美国不遑多让，2025年初因为受到气候影响，美国加州南部遭遇山火侵袭，目前已经导致6人丧生，超过2000座房屋严重受损，已经有15万加州民众被迫撤离家园。目前，因为极端强风“圣安娜风”的席卷，外加易燃植物，加州火势并没有得到控制，难以扑灭。目前，对于美国洛杉矶山火失控，即将卸任的美国总统拜登已经抵达洛杉矶，开启救灾工作，我国也做出紧急表态。我国驻洛杉矶总领馆对外做出三点表态：一是对美国加州山火态势保持高度关注；二是要求南加州华人华侨高度警惕山火动态，做好应急自救准备；三是中国驻洛杉矶总领馆保持电话畅通，为协助华人华侨摆脱火灾提供支援和帮助。我国驻洛杉矶领事馆之所以这么表态，就是基于美国对于自然灾害的反应，不是我国一方有难八方支援的全力救援，而是充满资本主义意味的分散式救援，所以我国强调在美华人华侨要重视自救，就是防止美国救援不到位。对此，美媒不高兴了，表示中国对于美国的救援反应是“负面的”，这让人难以接受。那么，怎么看待这件事呢？很简单，中美几乎是同时遭遇大型自然灾害我，完全可以做个横向对比。

B | 看看我国是怎么做的，西藏日喀则发生6.8级大地震，仅仅不到3个小时，解放军第一批先遣队就抵达灾区，开始救援，随后，消防队、医护队等等各界人士充分响应支援，解放军更是出动运20等一系列装备为灾区群众运去了医疗队，也运去了帐篷，棉被，围巾，手套，保暖衣，应急食品，真正做到及时全面有力支援。反观美国呢？为什么洛杉矶火势遭到失控？自然原因是一方面，但是美国救援力度真的尽力了吗？如果真的尽力了，怎么会火势控制率几乎为零呢？怎么会有这么多房屋被烧毁呢？甚至出现消防员只救出一只猫的场景。特别是在山火预警方面，电线老化等人为因素，长期遭到忽视，也没有设置大型隔离带，导致洛杉矶火势失控。甚至加州山火亲历者直接哀叹，“除了逃什么也做不了”。所以美国对于我国的表态不高兴，真的是我国恶意抹黑美国吗？并不是，美国自从911之后，真的能够做到尽力尽责救援吗？恐怕要打个问号。

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