Analysis of the Upgrade of China's Manufacturing Industry Structure from Outsourcing in Global Value Chain

摘要

With the deepening of economic globalization and the weakening of international trade barriers, the international division of labor begins to present a new model, from the initial division of labor between industries to the division of labor within the product - the Global Value Chain (GVC) division. China, as the largest developing country, many of its companies actively participate into this new model of division. However, due to the lack of core technologies and brands, China mainly lies in the labor-intensive parts through outsourcing. This paper first analyzes the outsourcing's contribution to the upgrade of Chinese manufacturing industry structure by upstreamness index. Then I build an econometric model to evaluate different factors attached to the upgrade of industrial structure. Finally, I put forward correlative suggestions to improve the status of international division of labor of China to achieve greater industrial structure upgrades.