China's Position in Intra-product Trade and Its Trade Direction:Evidence from Electronics

对中国电子机械类产品内贸易的实证研究表明,中国仍然处于产品生产的低端环节或价值链的低附加值部分,但已经出现产品生产环节或价值链环节的攀升现象。从贸易地理方向上看,中国电子机械类产品内贸易已经从明显的三角贸易模式逐步转为融入到全球生产网络体系中去,具有明显的全球价值分割的特征。鉴于全球产品内贸易的深入发展,欧美不断引发针对中国的贸易争端是不公正的。This paper investigates China's role in the international production in electronics empirically. The evidence shows that although China is still in the lower end of global value chains, the position of China is somehow improved. By analyzing its direction of foreign trade, the paper concludes that as far as electronics is concerned, China, used to be an assembly and export base of advanced Asian economies, is now more and more involved in the global production network. Due to the expansion of intra-product trade and China's special position in this process, quite a number of trade disputes among EU, US and China are misplaced.教育部人文社科重点研究基地重大项目(2006JDXM207);; 福建省高等学校社会科学研究项目(JA06004S)的部分研究成果