Since the reform, Kunshan has maximized the historic opportunities connected to economic globalization and China’s reform and opening up and has embarked on the “Path of Kunshan,” which is characterized by developing an open economy through giving full play to to its resource endowment and location advantages, thus achieving an economic breakthrough. Kushan’s Path of Industrial Transformation and Upgrading analyzes development law and modern features of international labor division in the context of economic globalization and delves into Kunshan’s economic development stages and the influence mechanism of a variety of limitations on the mode of Kunshan’s open economy development from the perspective of international industrial transfer and intra-production specialization. It also explores an optimized path for the “transformation and upgrading” of the open economy development mode, so as to identify the main obstacles that impact its “transformation and upgrading” and provide relevant advice on promoting “transformation and upgrading” and achieving sustainable development.
