The ongoing upgrading of value chain in China's manufacturing leads China toward a middle-income country. The paper … first examines the performance and technological upgrading between and within China's manufacturing since 1978. By using the … the fundamental driving forces to drive China's upgrading of its value chain. My analysis suggests that China should …

Investment: A Firm-Level Empirical Investigation of China -- Distribution, Outward FDI, and Productivity Heterogeneity: China and …This book focuses on China's fast-growing outward foreign direct investment (ODI) and discusses the underlying causes … characteristics of China's ODI manufacturing enterprises, examine the relationship between enterprise productivity and ODI …