Southeast Asia accounts for about 12% of global manufacturing and is becoming a key node in the supply chains for renewable energy, electric vehicles, batteries, and semiconductors. Based on the outcomes of the 2025 Bangkok international symposium, this article adopts the theory of the developmental state to analyze the differences in green industrial policy pathways, institutional capacity, social costs, and external pressure from the EU across six countries—Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines—revealing the deep tension between green transition and export-oriented industrialization.
Based on the research in *Scientific Reports* on the relationship between China's population distribution and the agglomeration of urban industrial facilities, this analyzes the long-term changes in China's urban industrial layout and population mobility from the perspectives of POI data, industrial space, regional competition, and supply chain restructuring.
Global manufacturing research institutions often overlook a fundamental underlying variable—population distribution. China's urban industrial agglomeration and population flows are forming a new mutually reinforcing relationship. Based on a large-sample study of 352 Chinese cities, this article interprets the interactive logic between industrial facility agglomeration and population growth, as well as its far-reaching impact on global supply chain site selection and industrial regionalization.
Based on the latest research, this article analyzes three development paths for Southeast Asian countries in the field of artificial intelligence, revealing how technological dependence affects the upgrading of regional manufacturing and the reshaping of global supply chains.
Based on academic research, analyze the differentiation of AI development paths among Southeast Asian countries, as well as their impact on global manufacturing, supply chains, and industrial policy.
From technological dependence to independent innovation, the divergence among Southeast Asian countries on the AI track reflects the deep-seated challenges and opportunities in the restructuring of global manufacturing supply chains.
A study based on long-term panel data from Spain shows that the relationship between innovation input and output is not a simple linear one, with core industrial regions such as Catalonia and Madrid actually exhibiting lower positive effects. This finding provides a new analytical perspective for the restructuring of global manufacturing supply chains and regional industrial policy.
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From the perspective of global manufacturing, this paper analyzes three development paths for Southeast Asian countries in the field of artificial intelligence—leading, catching up, and depending—and explores how the degree of technological dependence affects each country's position in regional supply chains, as well as the deep impact of AI governance policies on industrial upgrading.
Based on the comparative study of global value chains and trade patterns in 2024, analyze the two-way trends of developed countries promoting manufacturing reshoring and developing countries moving up to the high end, as well as their long-term impacts on global supply chain layout, industrial policy, and industrial competitiveness.
The United Nations has declared 2026-2035 as the Fourth Industrial Development Decade for Africa (IDDA IV). This is not merely a political symbol but also marks a potential restructuring of the global manufacturing landscape. This article analyzes how Africa can leverage opportunities such as its young population, digital technologies, and regional integration to achieve industrial leapfrogging amid the restructuring of global supply chains.
Based on an analysis of over 50 million enterprise records across 6,638 protected areas in China, strict protection policies have increased industrial turnover rates. Both enterprise entry and exit are associated with improvements in ecosystem service value, but some industrial relocation comes with local ecological trade-offs.
The Philippines is facing structural labor contradictions, and the human-machine hybrid economy has become the key to breaking the deadlock. This article analyzes how AI, automation, and other technologies are redefining manufacturing competitiveness from a global supply chain perspective, and explores the supporting role of policies and infrastructure.
Bangladesh's FY27 budget illustrates the limitations of supply-side incentives. Global experience shows that public procurement, as a demand-side tool, is the core engine of industrial upgrading. This article analyzes from a global perspective how Bangladesh can learn from the models of China, South Korea, and India to achieve deep transformation of its manufacturing sector.
Based on the latest IndexBox report, an analysis of the growth prospects of the West African industrial vacuum evaporator market driven by pharmaceutical localization policies, as well as structural bottlenecks such as import dependence patterns, supplier certification, and logistics delays.
This article reexamines the debate on Philippine industrial policy from the perspectives of industrial chain restructuring, state capacity, and technological upgrading: why an economic structure long reliant on services, remittances, and imported consumption is facing growing vulnerability amid the regionalization of global supply chains, geoeconomic fragmentation, and the accelerating automation of industry.
A study based on the global graphite trade network shows that adjustments in China’s graphite exports not only affect direct buyers, but also reshape global supply chains, industrial competition, and patterns of value capture through multiple layers of transmission.