[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6516]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            HIGH-TECHNOLOGY JOBS BEING TRANSFERRED TO CHINA

  (Ms. PELOSI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, soon we will be voting on the President's 
special request for a waiver for most-favored-nation status for China. 
I am here today to talk about one of the myths that has been 
circulated, and that is that most of the jobs that we are losing to 
China are low-technology jobs. Indeed, one of the greatest assaults on 
the American worker is being made right now with the transfer of 
technology to China. For example, Boeing used to make all of its tail 
sections for the 737 in Wichita, KS. Now, in the last couple of years, 
they have transferred the production of half of those tail sections to 
Xi'an, China, where workers make $50 a month on these high-technology 
jobs, thereby taking jobs from the American worker that are high-
technology.
  In addition to that, if you wish to sell into the Chinese market, you 
must build a factory there and then turn over your technology plans to 
some institute there which then passes it around among the Chinese 
where you have now created your competitors.
  This is a very important issue, Mr. Speaker. If intellectual property 
is a $2 to $3 billion loss, this is over a $100 billion loss. It does 
harm to the American worker and steals America's economic future.

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