Abstract:With the development of economic globalization, the international division of labor system has entered the stage of global value chain. Due to the complexity, refinement and modularity of high-tech industry production, it is more suitable for the international division of labor system of global value chain. At the same time, high-tech industry is an important field to safeguard national security and drive economic development. It is necessary to objectively estimate the position of China's high-tech industry in the global value chain. This paper selects the world input-output table provided by OECD-TiVA and uses Wang Zhi’s trade value added accounting method (WWZ) to measure and analyze the position of China's high-tech industry in the global value chain from 1995 to 2020. The results show that the status of China's high-tech industry in the global value chain is not high. Although it has improved, it is only limited to the middle and low-end links. Specifically, from the perspectives of the participation degree and participation position of the global value chain, they present the changing characteristics of "firstly rise and then fall" and "firstly fall and then rise" respectively. The main reason for the above status is that the way China's high-tech industry embedded in the international division of labor system of the global value chain has changed from the supply of raw materials and other primary products to the assembly and processing of final products and then to the supply of intermediate products. In general, the participation mode of China's high-tech industry in the global value chain has become backward participation.