different cities within China, This paper investigates the contributing factors to China's rising export sophistication … the increased overlap between China's export structure and that of high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human … export structure. On the other hand, processing trade, foreign invested firms, and government-sponsored high-tech zones all …

their mode of export - either directly or indirectly through an intermediary. The model predicts that intermediaries will be …

have better export performance than private domestic firms, and that this advantage is systematically greater in sectors at … higher levels of financial vulnerability measured in a variety of ways. These patterns are manifest in firms' export sales …, export product scope and number of export destinations. They are also more pronounced when firms face higher trade costs …