Notice of RetractionEffects of international production fragmentation

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It is of firm evidence that international production fragmentation has improving effects on the industrial productivity of China. Based on the appropriate indicators and indices, this paper adopts fixed effects and the first-order difference method to explore the efficiency of international production fragmentation on different industries. The research shows international production fragmentation has different-level of effects on the industrial productivity. The conclusion is that international production fragmentation brings the most obvious impacts on the low-and middle-tech industries, next high-tech industries, last primary products, labor-and resource-intensive industries.