Unexceptional exporter performance in China? The role of processing trade

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Can Developing Countries Gain from Defying Comparative Advantage? Distance to Comparative Advantage, Export Diversification and Sophistication, and the Dynamics of Specialization (2018, background): “…be largely attributed to processing activities (Naughton, 2007; Van Assche and Gangnes, 2010), the pattern of specialization of the Chinese economy is not based on equally sophisticated domestic technological capabilities (Yue and Hua, 2002; Schott, 2008; Amiti and Freund, 2012, Dai et al., 2016).”
Processing Trade, Tariff Reductions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Firms (2015, unknown): “Previous works, such as Dai et al. (2012), find that less-productive firms self-select to engage in processing trade.”
Exports and Credit Constraints under Incomplete Information: Theory and Evidence from China (2014, unknown): “Dai, Maitra, and Yu (2012) find evidence that pure exporters are mostly processing firms in China.”
How Firms Export: Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions (2016, unknown): “These include firm productivity (Brandt and Morrow, 2015; Dai et al., 2011; Defever and Riaño, 2012), space-based industrial policies (Defever and Riaño, 2012), import tariffs (Brandt andMorrow, 2015), and incentives for foreign firms to vertically integrate their Chinese supplier (Feenstra and…”