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names; one of these names is its factory name. For example:
Beijing No. 1 Prison (LRC-03-09) is also called Xinjiang No. 3
Machanical Tool Factory; Shaanix Province No. 2 Prison (LRC-17-14) is also
known as Shaanxi Boiler Factory; Shanxi Province No. 3 Prison (LRC-01-07) is
also known as Hunan Heavy truck Factory; Hubei Province No. 3 Prison (LRC-
19-02) is also called Jingzhou Textile Dyeing Factory; etc.”
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Not surprisingly, slave labor is very profitable in China and production and profits have
been increasing phenomenally. For example, during a five-year period Shandong Province’s
Laiyang Labor Reform Branch’s (LRC-21-23, established February 1984) production increased
28.5 percent annually; profits increased 48.3 percent annually; and exports increased 43 percent
annually.
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As of 1992, Mr. Wu had collected information on 990 labor reform camps in China. His
estimate was that at that time that there were 3,900 to 5,900 slave labor camps in China.
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Those
slave labor camps are used to produce over 200 different types of industrial products. These
include metal products, mining products, mechanical and electrical products, chemical products
and light industrial products. “Metal products include lead, zinc, tin, gold, copper, and mercury;
mining products include coal, iron, sulfur, and phosphorous; mechanical and electrical products
include automobiles, machine tools, electrical components and electrical instruments; chemical
products include chemical fertilizer, sulfur, recycled rubber and industrial chemicals; light
industrial products include cotton cloth, fans, leather shoes and clothing. LRE also supplies over
20 types of agricultural products, the most important being soybeans, oil products, tea leaves,
fruit and fowl.”
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China exports consumer goods of a very wide variety; a small sample includes “rubber-
soled shoes, boots, kitchenware, toys, tools, and sporting goods.”
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Wu visited one prison that
makes rubber books for a U.S. retailer.
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Tea is also a major export for China, “one-third of all
Chinese tea comes from places like the Guangdong Province Red Star Tea Company, where
prisoners work in the fields not far from salaried workers.”
613
In 1989 one prison in China alone
exported $85 million worth of textiles to several countries one of these being the U.S.
614
The U.S. Department of Commerce separates foreign trade commodities into 99
categories. The Chinese labor reform camps produce goods from 65% of these categories. It’s
possible they produce goods in even a much higher percentage of the categories but Wu says that
he couldn’t reach a conclusion on 35 categories because lack of information.
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Since the 1950s slave labor has played a very important role in much of the infrastructure
construction projects in China. These projects have built roads and highways, railroads, and
water projects. Without this type of infrastructure, China would not be able to produce the goods
it does today. Examples of these projects include:
1.
Hui River Valley Water Conservancy Project (1950s)
2.
Heilongjiang River Valley Northern Wilderness Development Project (1950s and
1960s)
3.
Subei General Irrigation Project (1950s)
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