Export Intensity,Industrial Chain Linkage and Industrial Upgrading—An Analysis of Heterogeneity Based on Resource Dependence of Chinese Manufacturing Industry
This paper theoretically elaborates on the impact mechanism of export intensity on industrial upgrading from the perspective of industrial chain linkage,and validates it using Chinese manufacturing industry level data from 2000 to 2014.The study found that the increase of export intensity will inhibit industrial upgrading,and the results of endogenous test are ro-bust.Mechanism analysis shows that,on the whole,the increase of export intensity will increase the international linkage of the industrial chain,and reduce the domestic linkage of the industrial chain,but mainly by increasing the international link-age of the industrial chain to inhibit industrial upgrading.Based on the fact that the competitive edge of Chinese export is mainly concentrated in industries with high resource dependence,further heterogeneity analysis shows that for industries with high resource dependence,the increase of export intensity will increase the international linkage of the industrial chain,while reducing the domestic linkage of the industrial chain,thereby inhibiting the industrial upgrading.Industries with low resource dependence have no significant effect.Exploring breakthrough paths for this purpose,analysis shows that the improvement of resource allocation efficiency can effectively hedge the inhibition effect of increasing export intensity on industrial upgrading.It can be seen that under increasingly complex international condition,while insisting on promoting high-standard opening-up to explore international markets and access global resources,China urgently needs to focus on developing its domestic in-dustrial chain and improving the efficiency of resource allocation.This study can provide theoretical and practical support for industrial upgrading and development under the new development pattern of"the internal circulation the main one,the exter-nal circulation the enabler".