A New York man was sentenced on Tuesday to two years in prison for conspiring to steal General Electric Co’s (GE.N) trade secrets to benefit China, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.

Xiaoqing Zheng, 59, of Niskayuna, New York, was convicted of conspiracy to commit economic espionage following a four-week jury trial that ended in March last year, according to the Justice Department.