The development of digital technology has brought great opportunities for our country's foreign trade innovation, and digital trade has become an important starting point for the upgrading of global value chain. This paper is mainly divided into the following four parts: First, it expounds the development status of digital trade and China's global value chain under the background of "The Belt and Road"; Secondly, the theoretical mechanism of digital trade to China's global value chain upgrading is reviewed. Next, it points out the existing problems of digital trade in the upgrading process of China's global value chain. Finally; According to the existing problems, the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are put forward.

He Limei, Lin Keda. Research on the influence and countermeasures of digital trade on the enhancement of China's industrial chain in the context of "One Belt and One Road". Academic Journal of Business & Management (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 4: 202-208. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2025.070425.

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