Has China's Resource-based Regions Improved in the GVCs Specialization?—Take Shanxi as an Example

Abstract

How to evaluate the value-added acquisition and carbon emissions of a province, especially for resourcebased provinces, in the GVCs is still a problem worth solving. By embedding the world input-output table of Chinese provinces and using the decomposition method of GVCs, we comprehensively measured the valueadded and carbon emissions of Shanxi Province, a resource-rich province in China. The results show that from 2002 to 2012, the value-added carbon emissions imports and exports of Shanxi have been growing rapidly, which are mostly achieved through direct imports and exports of intermediate products or through other provinces in China. And we combined valueadded with carbon emissions to build an environmental inequity index model, and found that in the GVCs, the profitability of Shanxi actually deteriorated.