美國議員支持1000億美元的科學計劃去與中國競爭

Recently Yahoo News on-line reported the following:

U.S. lawmakers back $100 billion science push to compete with China

David Shepardson

Reuters Wed., April 21, 2021, 8:16 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation calling for $100 billion in government spending over five years on basic and advanced technology research and science in the face of rising competitive pressure from China.

The measure, sponsored by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, Republican Senator Todd Young and others, would also authorize another $10 billion to designate at least 10 regional technology hubs and create a supply chain crisis response program.

The bill, called the "Endless Frontier Act," represents a significant effort by the government to shore up private sector and university research efforts in advanced technologies with federal funding.

"There is a bipartisan consensus that the United States must invest in the technologies of the future to out-compete China," Schumer said, adding "whichever nation develops new technologies first - be they democratic or authoritarian - will set the terms for their use."

Republican Representative Mike Gallagher, another sponsor, said U.S. superiority in science and technology "is at risk. The Chinese Communist Party has used decades of intellectual property theft and industrial espionage to close this technological gap in a way that threatens not only our economic security, but also our way of life."

The Senate Commerce Committee is expected to mark up the bill next week as Schumer looks to fast-track approval.

Schumer said separately he will push for "emergency spending" to implement the semiconductor manufacturing provisions in last year’s defense bill.

In February, President Joe Biden said he would seek $37 billion in funding for legislation to boost chip manufacturing in the United States as a shortfall of semiconductors has forced U.S. automakers and other manufacturers to cut production.

Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure and jobs bill calls for $50 billion for semiconductor manufacturing and research.

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation called the bill a "seminal piece of legislation taking definitive steps to restore American competitiveness in 10 key advanced-technology industries of the future, such as biotech, clean energy, and semiconductors."

Translation

華盛頓（路透社）- 面對來自中國的日益激烈的競爭壓力，一個由兩黨組成的美國立法者團體週三提出立法，要求政府在五年內在基礎和先進技術研究與科學上投入1000億美元。

這項由參議院民主黨領袖Chuck Schumer，共和黨參議員Todd Young等人發起的措施，亦將授權另外100億美元，用以畫出至少10個地區技術中心，並製定供應鏈危機應對計劃。

這項名為“無盡邊界法”的法案代表了政府通過聯邦資金, 支持私營部門和大學對先進技術進行研究而做出的重大努力。

Schumer說： “兩黨一致認為，美國必須在未來的技術上進行投資，以超越中國” 。他補充說， “無論哪個國家首先開發新技術，無論是民主的還是專制的，都將為其新技術的使用設定條件規定。

另一位贊助商的共和黨代表Mike Gallagher表示，“美國的科學技術優勢正在受到威脅。中國共產黨利用數十年的知識產權盜竊和工業間諜活動來縮小這一技術差距，不僅威脅我們的經濟安全，也威脅我們的生活方式。”

由於Schumer尋求快速批准，預計參議院商務委員會將在下週對該法案進行批註。

Schumer還表示，他將推動 “緊急開支” 以實施去年國防法案中的半導體製造條例規定。

今年2月，美國總統喬·拜登（Joe Biden）表示，他將尋求370億美元的立法資金，以推動美國芯片製造業的發展，因為半導體的短缺迫使美國汽車製造商和其他製造商削減生產。

拜登的2.3萬億美元基礎設施和就業法案, 要求為半導體製造和研究投入500億美元。

信息技術和創新基金會(The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation) 稱該法案為“一項最終措施，旨在恢復美國在未來10個關鍵高科技產業如生物技術，清潔能源和半導體等的競爭力的重要立法。”

       So, the Americans are taking definitive steps to restore American competitiveness in 10 key advanced-technology industries of the future, such as biotech, clean energy, and semiconductors.