In order to further strengthen academic exchanges between CIWTO and other institutions in the field of global value chain, at 2pm on April 24, Lu Yue gave a presentation on "The Effect of Global Value Chain Embeddedness on Productivity: An Analysis of its Impact and Mechanism" at Renmin University of China. Wang Xiaosong, Professor at the School of Economics at Renmin University of China, hosted the event. All the PhD students at the School of Economics participated in the seminar.

In the seminar, Lu Yue pointed out that productivity effect of the global value chain embeddedness is the frontier of the current international trade research, but existing research lacks sufficient discussion on the incidence and mechanism. The paper utilizes the firm-level data of " Annual Surveys of Industrial Firms from the National Bureau of Statistics of China", " Chinese Customs Transaction-level Trade Data " from 2000 to 2006, and the merged dataset of the "World Input-Output Database" (WIOD) and "Chinese Industrial Firm Database" from 2001 to 2011, and investigates the productivity improvement effect of global value chain embeddedness. In the end, the paper came to a conclusion that getting involved in the global value chain can effectively improve the production efficiency of the firms.

After the lecture, Lu Yue had an in-depth conversation with the professors and students present, on issues such as global value chain and China. Lu Yue seriously took everyone's questions. Finally, Professor Wang Xiaosong, Associate Professor at the School of Economics at Renmin University of China, summarized the content of the lecture and thanked Lu Yue again for her visit.

Translator: DONG Yue Revisor: HOU Jingnan