The Impact Of Global Value Chains’ Participation Degree And Position On Industrial Carbon Productivity

In today’s advocating low-carbon environmental protection,the blind pursuit of rapid economic development is no longer in line with the needs of the country.As early as 2007,our country advocated the development of a low-carbon economy.Nowadays,the concept of “green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains” is becoming more and more popular.This has given important instructions to the development of all walks of life in our country,reminding us to always pursue green development and abandon the idea of pollution while developing.Based on the current background of my country’s active development of a low-carbon economy and global value chain enthusiasm,this article mainly studies the impact of global value chain embedding on China’s carbon productivity,and makes a relatively in-depth analysis of the relationship between the two.Since industry is the main industry of carbon emissions and one of the important sources of my country’s national economy,this article focuses on the situation of China’s industrial carbon productivity.Is the embedding of global value chains conducive to the improvement of our country’s industrial carbon productivity? Does higher participation and position degree have a positive impact on carbon productivity?Does the degree of participation and position of different industries have the same impact on carbon productivity? Based on the above questions,this article will match the industries in the TIVA database with the industries in the China Industrial Statistical Yearbook,analyze the matched industrial segments,and then use the KPWW method to measure the global value chain(GVC);In terms of carbon productivity,this article uses single-factor carbon productivity to calculate our country’s industrial carbon productivity.Then,empirical analysis is carried out by combining the data of the two,introducing the interactive items of the theoretical mechanism,and grouping the subdivided industries according to the difference of factor intensity to analyze the industry heterogeneity.The research results show that: during the sample size period,there is a positive correlation between participation degree in global value chains and carbon productivity,and a negative correlation between location and carbon productivity.It can be seen that increasing the position of the global value chain at the current stage will reduce carbon productivity;In terms of theoretical mechanism,from the perspective of global value chain participation degree,this article through technological innovation effects and structural upgrading effects and so on to analyze the relationship between global value chain participation and carbon productivity;In terms of position degree,this article analyzes the impact of technology upgrades and industrial organization upgrades on carbon productivity.Through empirical analysis,we find that the impact of global value chains on industrial carbon productivity not only has a direct effect,but also indirectly affects carbon productivity through interaction effects;In terms of industry heterogeneity,this article uses factor intensity to subdivide industries into labor-intensive industries,capital-intensive industries,and technology-intensive industries.Through empirical analysis,this article finds that GVC embedding has obvious industry heterogeneity to carbon productivity.Among them,the degree of participation and position of capital-intensive industries have a significant positive correlation with my country’s industrial carbon productivity,while labor-intensive and technology-intensive industries have a weaker correlation.