Upstreamness Of The Industry And The International Competitiveness Of China's Manufacturing Industry

Manufacturing is the cornerstone of a country's industrialization and economic development of a country plays a vital role.During the past 40 years of reform and opening up,China's manufacturing industry has made substantial progress,the role of manufacturing in China's economic development is becoming increasingly prominent.With the deepening of economic globalization,China's manufacturing position in global production networks more and more important,China's manufacturing industry in the global value chain position and international competitiveness are changing.Firstly,from Michael Porter's value chain theory,gradually analyzes the content and evolution of the global value chain.In addition,from classical trade theory,competitive advantage theory point of view,analyzes the development of international competitiveness.By drawing on the latest research results of global value chains and establish evaluation index of China's manufacturing position in the global value chain,using mainly Antras etc.In this paper,upstream of the upstream indicators and WIOD database estimates China's manufacturing index,and the world major countries are compared,clear China's manufacturing industry in the global value chain position.In addition,trade data use WIOD database estimates the revealed comparative advantage of China's manufacturing index,a measure of global competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry.Finally,the regression model to explore the relationship between the upstremness change its international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry.The main conclusions of this article are as followsChinese manufacturing various industry segments upstream index increased first and then decreased;low,middle and upper reaches of the high-tech industry trend and two economic crises are closely related.International competitive advantage of Chinese manufacturing low-technology industry continues to weaken,while international competitive advantage in high-tech industry is constantly increasing.Manufacturing Industry Development in the United States,Germany and other manufacturing division of powers as the representative position in global production networks more stable,the manufacturing sector tends to be more downstream production value chain;manufactured in Brazil and India as the representative of emerging economies industry sector is gradually moving downstream to global value chains;and China's manufacturing division of labor in the global production network of large changes,China's manufacturing sector tends to be more upstream production value chain and significantly affected by the global economic crisis.In this paper,the international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry factors further study found upstream of the industry and the international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry showed a reverse relationship between labor productivity and wages in the industry to enhance the competitiveness of China's manufacturing exports.This article may innovations mainly in the following three aspectsThe first is a measure of the global value chain division of Measurement-upstreamness of the industry,compared with the existing research has its more innovative.In this paper.Harvard University Antras put forward the concept and measurement of the upstream industry framework estimates the relative position of China's manufacturing industry in the global value chain,in order to explore the concept of the international division of labor point of view of the various sectors of manufacturing industry.The second angle data analysis in this paper is relatively new.Based on the analysis WIOD database,respectively measure the upstream of the industry and the international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry.WIOD database input-output table is non-competitive,the source of intermediate products are divided into domestic and international two parts,with respect to competitive input-output table is more practical significance.The third innovation is the return of empirical research methods in this paper.Most research scholars and research institutions of the upstream industry and international competitiveness study is carried out separately,rarely combine the two,and regression empirical research,this paper industry and upstream of the international competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry combined,regression empirical research to explore the intrinsic link between the two,to explore China's manufacturing industry in the global value chain position is how it affects our international competitiveness of the manufacturing sector,and make recommendations accordingly.Disadvantage of the paper lies in the following three aspects The first is the timeliness of the data by the Institute lacking.WIOD update data in the database only to 2011,on the one hand there is a lot of lag time WIOD on statistical data in the database,you can not get the latest statistical data,on the other hand WIOD database industry data input-output tables have missing,incomplete statistics.Time statistics lag lead article can not apply the latest empirical research data.The second is the upstream of the industry as a measure of global value chain division index itself is inherently flawed.The first is that no real indicator of economic significance,but on behalf of an industry in the production process of their products reach the consumers to go through the final steps in China's manufacturing industry to measure the global value chain in the process of division of labor can not represent China's manufacturing industry in international division of labor status,consider increasing the value of the calculation process in the future to better reflect the international division of China's manufacturing industry in the global value chain.Secondly,the calculation process industries upstream metrics without considering firm heterogeneity problem.the index has a recessive assumed in the calculation process,in which the same industry,different companies producing the same technology,ie direct consumption coefficient used in the same industry is the same in the future to improve the process of integration in heterogeneous enterprise estimates more realistic framework.The third is due to my limited level,covered much of the foreign literature,foreign literature failed to latest research results apply to this article.