Abstract: Based on the world input-output table provided by WIOD website in 2016 and the panel matching data of China's manufacturing industry, this paper calculates the global value chain division status index of China's manufacturing industry from 2005 to 2014, and empirically tests the impact of environmental regulation on the global value chain division status of China's manufacturing industry. The results show that when other conditions remain unchanged, environmental regulation has a significant and steady positive role in promoting the division of labor in the manufacturing global value chain. The heterogeneity analysis shows that the impact of environmental regulation on the division of labor in the manufacturing global value chain is also different with different industry factor intensity and pollution degree. Among them, capital intensity has a significant negative regulatory effect on the impact of environmental regulation on the division of labor in the manufacturing global value chain, The degree of industrial pollution has a certain negative regulatory effect on the division of labor status of manufacturing global value chain, but it is not significant. The conclusion shows that at present, the dynamic relationship between environmental regulation and industrial development should be used to promote the division of labor status of China's manufacturing industry in the global value chain, gradually improve the screening criteria for investors, especially foreign investors to invest in China, continue to strengthen innovation and R&D and talent training, and provide solid technical support for the upgrading of the status of the global value chain.
