What the iPhone tells us about China’s trade

When China opened up, Chinese income increased and China went from a poor to a middle-income country. In this video, Miajie Yu discusses the impact of trade liberalisation on firm productivity in China. Openness to trade had a big impact on processing trade – such as putting together iPhones – and now accounts for half of Chinese trade. This video was recorded in March 2016 during the Royal Economic Society’s Annual Conference held at the University of Sussex.

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Topics:  Global economy International trade

Tags:  Chinese growth, trade liberalisation, firm productivity, import competition, processing trade

Miaojie Yu

Professor, China Center for Economic Research; Deputy Dean, National School of Development (NSD), Peking University

Events

  • China Economics Summer Institute (CESI)
    17 - 18 August 2019 / Peking University, Beijing / Chinese University of Hong Kong – Tsinghua University Joint Research Center for Chinese Economy, the Institute for Emerging Market Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development at Stanford University, the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, BREAD, NBER and CEPR
  • CALL FOR PAPER - Vienna Symposium on Foreign Exchange Markets
    19 - 20 August 2019 / Vienna, Palais Coburg / WU Research Institute for Capital Markets (ISK)
  • SALENTO MACRO MEETINGS 2019
    29 - 30 August 2019 / Galatina, Italy /
  • Sustainable Development Conference 2019
    4 - 5 September 2019 / Roma Eventi, Congress Center, Pontificia Università Gregoriana Piazza della Pilotta, 4, Rome, Italy / European Center of Sustainable Development , CIT University
  • CIMS Summer School and Conference 2019
    9 - 14 September 2019 / Guildford, Surrey, UK / The University of Surrey

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