The report of the 20th CPC National Congress clearly puts forward the strategic plan of “promoting new urbanization centered on human beings”, positioning new urbanization as an important engine for promoting high-quality development. Currently, China's urbanization has moved from “scale expansion” to a new stage of “quality improvement”, but the solidification of regional development gaps, the aggravation of resource and environmental constraints, and the lack of innovation-driven capacity have constrained the synergistic development of economic efficiency, ecological intensification, and social inclusion. In this context, with the deep integration of the global value chain and the accelerated construction of the “double cycle” pattern, cities participate in the international division of labor by embedding themselves in the global value chain, which provides a new path to break the low-end locking predicament, optimize factor allocation and drive industrial upgrading, but its role in the high-quality development of urbanization still needs to be systematically explored, which is important for optimizing the regional development pattern and implementing the new urbanization. This is of great theoretical value and practical significance for optimizing the regional development pattern and implementing the new urbanization strategy.By combing the relevant literature, this paper constructs a theoretical framework of urban GVC embeddedness on the high-quality development of urbanization, and empirically researches the impact of urban GVC embeddedness on the high-quality development of urbanization. The results show that the embeddedness of urban global value chains can significantly promote the high-quality development of urbanization. Further analysis shows that both urban innovation and urban resource mismatch enhance the effect of urban GVC embeddedness on the high-quality development of urbanization. In addition, considering the differences in geographic locations, economic environments and resource factor endowments of different cities, this paper conducts a heterogeneity analysis.Based on the above findings, this paper puts forward targeted recommendations. First, deepen the embedding of urban global value chains and promote the high-quality development of urbanization. Second, enhance urban innovation capacity and optimize resource allocation to stimulate the endogenous momentum of urbanization. Third, promote coordinated regional development according to local conditions to promote the high-quality process of urbanization.

Shaoshuai Ye. The Impact of Cities' Embedding in the Global Value Chain on the High-Quality Development of Urbanization. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 5: 11-16. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2025.070502.

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