Digitization of the Global Value Chain and High-quality Development: Case Studies from the Chinese Industry

This book systematically examines how the digitalization of global value chains (GVCs) has driven the high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry. It reveals the intrinsic mechanisms and pathways through which digital technologies reshape the international division of labor and promote industrial upgrading.

Integrating theory with empirical analysis, the book establishes an innovative measurement framework for GVC digitalization. Using data from China's manufacturing sectors from 2000 to 2020, the book evaluates the quality of industrial development across five dimensions: innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the characteristics, challenges, and multidimensional impacts of Chinese manufacturing's integration into digital GVCs. Using rigorous econometric models, the study demonstrates that digitalization primarily advances high-quality manufacturing development through three channels: reducing transaction costs, fostering technological innovation, and optimizing resource allocation. Finally, the book proposes strategic pathways and policy implications targeted to China's manufacturing industry, offering a solid theoretical foundation and decision-making reference for achieving value chain upgrading and structural optimization in the digital era.

This book will be valuable for scholars and policymakers in the fields of the digital economy, GVCs, international trade, and industrial economics, as well as for university students and industry professionals.

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Dan Li is Vice Dean of the School of Finance and Trade at Liaoning University, China. Her main research area is international trade theory and policy. She has published over 50 academic papers in SSCI and CSSCI journals.

Riming Cui is Director of the Center for Russian and Mongolian Studies at Liaoning University and Professor at the School of Finance and Trade. His main research area is international trade theory and policy. He has published over 100 academic papers in SSCI and CSSCI journals.

Yiwen Ding is a lecturer at the School of Marxism, Liaoning University. She currently serves as Deputy Director of the General Affairs Office, Department of Economics, Liaoning University, and is an Adjunct Researcher at both the National Economic Institute and Institute for Development of Technological Society. Her main research areas focus on the national economy and rural economy. She has published numerous academic papers in CSSCI-indexed journals.