Subcontracting enterprises can be locked into the low value added activities of GVC because of path dependency, which is influenced by different level reasons.

来自宏观、中观和微观等多方面的因素会使得代工企业对代工模式产生路径依赖，被锁定于全球价值链的低端环节，阻碍其从代工向OBM的升级。

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But Asia has to diversify, because too many countries make the same things and China makes low value-added products cheaper.

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Gone is the low value-added export model, and in its place is an economy increasingly dependent on its own people and their consumption.

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The jewelry interest is the high-carat low value-added jewelry, he said.

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