The impact of the change of trade pattern on China’s energy industry——Based on the measurement of the upstreamness of production of the value chains

Abstract

The natural monopoly of China’s upstream industry and the vertical structure of industrial chain’s upstream and downstream competition is an important feature of China’s industrial economic structure, and the impact of the change of trade pattern on the energy industry, which located at the upstream of the China’s value chain, has become an important issue in the industrial economy. Since China has entered into the WTO in 2001, we use it for event analysis based on 1987-2007 China input-output data. The study calculates the upstreamness of production of the value chain in various industrial sectors of China’s energy industry every five years, and make correlation analysis of upstreamness of production and other economic indicators to check the characteristics of periodic inspection of China’s industrial structure with the development of industrial economy and the change of trade pattern.