Measuring Spatial Distribution Of Global Value Chains And China’s Position

With the gradual disappearance of the barriers of international trade and trans-national investment, the whole globe is merging into a huge market. Globalized economy has accelerated the flow of productive factorial resources between countries, and more and more intensified competition has driven manufacturers in various countries to consider global distribution of productive factorial resources in order to minimize costs. Since the1980s, organization forms of international manufacturing have undergone tremendous changes, and international manufacture net has become the basis organization form of global economy based on labour division of global value chain (GVC).Drawing on the relevant research on GVC, the thesis introduces the concept of spatial distribution of GVC, analyses the the formation mechanism of the spatial distribution of GVC from the perspetives of georgraphy and value, studies the influence of industrial policies on the spatial distribution of GVC, and assesses theoretically the efficiency of government intervetion and farewell effect. In addition, The study uses the international input-output model and constructs a series of measure indicators to quantify spatial distribution of GVC. World investment data provided by WIOD is used to measure the change and trend of China’s participation in the international division of labour, and to analyze the reasons for the change of China’s position in labour division of GVC. Countermeasures and suggestions are provided with regards to promoting China’s position in GVC.China enjoys a rising position in international labour division. In terms of industry, most of China’s industries are winners with their own problems, that is to say, the rising position of China attributes to increasing share in the world, instead of that of earned value. The most profitable industries of China are mainly raw material and basic manufacturing, whereas China is less competitive in hi-tech and service industries.Proposals to further promote China’s position in international labour division:1. to promote the ability of China’s industries, the high-tech and service industries in particular, to obtain value in GVC;2.to promote the global share of the industries with high capacity of value-earning;3.to cultivate the value-earning capability of strategic industries.The originalities of the thesis are as follows:1. Spatial distribution of value and geography are incorporated into the paradigm of GVC;2. Simple and extended models of spatial distribution of GVC are constructed based on the theory and methods of industrial organization, to analyze the formation mechanism of spatial distribution of GVC, and to compare the influence of government intervention on spatial distribution of GVC and farewell effect;3. The international input-output model is used to construct measure indicators of GVC, for placing China in the spatial distribution of GVC and it’s change. The thesis also analyzes the reasons for the change of China’s position in the spatial distribution of GVC from the perspectivs of value-earning capability, change in global share, and contribution to national economy.