Trade Liberalization and the Rise of Global Value Chains in China’s Manufacturing Industry ——An Empirical Research Based on the Panel Data of 30 Provinces and Cities in China
Trade Liberalization and the Rise of Global Value Chains in China’s Manufacturing Industry ——An Empirical Research Based on the Panel Data of 30 Provinces and Cities in China
TU Nian-song, XUE Dan-qing
Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China
Abstract This paper examines the trade liberalization’s impact on the upgrading of the global value chain status of China’s manufacturing industry. Based on the data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2007 to 2016, this paper studies the evolutionary characteristics of the global value chain status of China’s manufacturing industry from the regional level and different technology types. The results show that: on the whole, the manufacturing industry in the central region has certain competitive advantages compared with the eastern and western regions. Labor-intensive and resource-based industries are the dominant industries in China’s export competition, the international competitiveness of technology-intensive industries is increasing, and the traditional resource-based heavy industry is weak. In addition, in the study of the relationship between trade liberalization and the rise of the global value chain of manufacturing, it is found that, first of all, trade liberalization can promote the global value chain of high-tech manufacturing, and its impact on the central region is particularly obvious. Secondly, trade liberalization is unfavorable to the rise of the global value chain of China’s technology manufacturing industry in the eastern, central and western regions. Finally, trade liberalization has negative and positive impacts on the global value chain of low-tech manufacturing in the east and central regions respectively, but its influence in western region is not obvious.
TU Nian-song,XUE Dan-qing. Trade Liberalization and the Rise of Global Value Chains in China’s Manufacturing Industry ——An Empirical Research Based on the Panel Data of 30 Provinces and Cities in China. Economic Survey, 2019, 36(6): 070.
2019, Vol. 36 
