In the Yangtze River Delta, a large number of local die and mould enterprises try to obtain the opportunity of technological upgrading and industrial upgrading through "embedding" global value chain. However, practice has proved that the "foreign capital dependence path" of industrial progress is not necessarily successful. Many experts pointed out that if all the hope in the upgrading of the mould industry is placed on the technology spillover of foreign capital, the mould industry in the Yangtze River Delta will be locked in the low end of the global industry chain.

The mould industry in the Yangtze River Delta must speed up the adjustment of its development strategy, change its development mode, upgrade its development level and realize the leap from low-end manufacturing to high-end manufacturing. Although there are many excellent, competitive and large-scale die and mould enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta, experts say that the die and mould manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta region has achieved rapid development in recent years, but it is still in the low-end part of the international industrial division of labor, is not an "international manufacturing base", at best can only be called as "international manufacturing base".“ World Assembly Workshop.