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Under the influence of international trade, labor flow not only exists in the waves of international labor migration but is also embodied in international products and services. This paper focused on members of the China–Africa Cooperation Forum (FOCAC). We computed and analyzed the sectoral embodied labor transfer between China and Africa from 2000 to 2015 based on the Multiregional Input-Output Method. Our results are as follows: (1) Both China and Africa play roles as labor suppliers in the global supply chain. By ameliorating the trade structure, both China and Africa can better utilize their labor surplus. (2) China and Africa share complementarity in sectoral labor allocation. In short, the embodied labor transfer via international trade between China and Africa has, to some extent, relieved the labor shortage on both sides. (3) Africa has transformed into a net exporter of industrial labor since 2011. By analyzing the embodied labor flow from the global perspective, this paper beats a new path in depicting the effect of international trade on labor allocation, enriches the evaluation of embodied labor transfer between China and Africa, and also provides a beneficial supplement to Multiregional Input-Output analysis in the field of factor flows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study targets participants of the Forum of China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and aims to comprehensively analyze the arable land use transfer between China and Africa. We apply the multiregional input-output analysis to assess embodied arable land use and depict multifaceted changes of arable land use transfer embodied in the Sino-Africa trade from 1990 to 2015. Results reveal that: (1) China is a net importer of embodied arable land use in the Sino-Africa trade to meet its expanding domestic consumptive demand; the arable land use transfer in the Sino-Africa trade is less than that in EU-Africa and US-Africa trade; (2) there is a decline in the arable land use intensities for both China and Africa and a sharp decrease in the gap between the two intensities since the establishment of FOCAC; (3) the textiles and manufacturing sectors are the two largest contributors to the arable land use transfer from China to Africa, whereas agriculture sector is the largest contributor from Africa to China; (4) the share of China's arable land use originating from foreign regions increases from 2 % in 1990 to 23 % in 2015; approximately 40 % of arable land resources exploited locally in Africa are for final consumption abroad; China's arable land use that originates from Africa grows at an average annual rate of 11 %. Our findings affirm the positive effects of the Sino-Africa trade on arable land reallocation, and lend support to optimizing the trade structure in China and Africa in order to maximize usage of arable land resources. • Arable land use transfer embodied in the Sino-Africa trade is studied. • China is a net importer of embodied arable land use in the Sino-Africa trade. • The gap between China's and Africa's arable land use intensities narrowed since the establishment of FOCAC. • Sectoral contributions and source-to-sink properties of arable land use transfer are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The carbon-emission transfer between two representative developing economies - China and Africa - behind the international trade has aroused quite a few controversies, which have not been fully estimated and understood yet. In this paper, the Multiregional Input-Output (MRIO) method is applied to the participants of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) from the global perspective to reveal the roles both China and Africa have played in the global supply chain as either the original emitter or the final consumer, and to depict the evolution pattern of carbon transfer via Sino-Africa trade from the year 2000–2015. The findings are as follows: 1) China has played the role of net exporter of embodied carbon-emission in Sino-Africa trade, for the amount of emitted carbon China had born yet resulted by consumption in Africa well surpassed that vice versa. 2) Compared to the carbon-emission flows embodied in EU-Africa and US-Africa trades, China has shouldered more carbon-emission derived from Africa's consumption. 3) The sectoral contribution and intensities of embodied carbon-emission correspond to the trading pattern between China and Africa, which stems from the two parties' comparative advantages and economic complementarity. 4) The intensities of embodied carbon-emission on both sides are declining towards a rosy prospect, which indicates an improving carbon-emission efficiency of both economies. From a global perspective, both China and Africa play a positive part in carbon-emission reduction. The results in this study can facilitate low-carbon and high-efficiency trading link between the two economies. • Historical trend of embodied carbon transfer between China-Africa Forum participants is explored. • Carbon-emission in China related to Africa's consumption well surpassed that vice versa. • Sino-Africa trade has relieved the carbon-emission pressure on Africa's economic development. • Sectoral contribution of embodied carbon-emission reflects the complementarity between China and Africa. • Embodied carbon-emission intensities of both China and Africa have declined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]