| Nowadays, the greenhouse gas emission is obtained more and more attention from scholars. As we know, the developed countries has already accessed to the low-carbon advantages while the developing countries happened to coming into the stage of industrialization with high carbon emission.The carbon emission of China's total energy consumption in 2009 is about 7.707 billion tons, accounting for 25.4% of the total carbon emissions from global energy consumption. However, the carbon emissions problem can not only consider about per capita emissions and cumulative emissions, but also about carbon emission transfer in the international trade. Facing the complicated situation, President Hu made a commitment to carbon reduction on the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Conference: China's 2020 carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP will drop 40% to 45% than 2005. As a passive party, developing countries should take precautions to avoid high carbon emission whether you like.This paper analyzes the trade flows and the extent of vertical specialization in East Asian. It also explains China's position in the vertical division of East Asian and the status on the impact of carbon emissions. The results show a high degree of vertical division in East Asian and mainly concentrated in the capital-intensive and energy-intensive industries. Besides, China took place of Japan and South Korea and became a platform of export for East Asia. We calculated the embodied carbon-emission in the China's international trade. It shows that some of China's carbon emission increasing is to reduce other countries' carbon emission reduction, which also leads to "carbon leakage". Therefore, this article argues that China should take measures as soon as possible to upgrade the industrial structure in East Asian division of China position. We also suggest that China should adjust the trade structure and increase energy efficiency in order to achieve emission reduction target.
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