This paper represents an attempt to estimate the level of vertical specialization in China's manufacturing industry … using China's input-output tables (1995-2005) compiled by OECD; describe the trends of evolution in the trade … competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry using the 1995-2006 trade data of 24 Chinese industries; and examine the key factors …

After China's accession to WTO in 2001, it has substantially reduced its own import tariffs, and since then the … participation of China’s various industries in global value chains have all deepened steadily(GVC afterward). The traditional wisdom … in China, this paper analyzes the effect and mechanism of tariff reduction of intermediate and final goods on …

In the past decade, increasing economic integration with China has offered vast business opportunities to Korean firms … Chinese firms via foreign direct investment. During the last two decades, Korean firms in China attempted to create business … (partial model). We have found that the competitiveness of Korean firms in China experienced drastic changes, which changed the …