Due to the rapid development of global value chain, the global industrial division is increasingly turning to the division of production based on vertical specialization. The value creation of products is no longer completed independently by one country, but is realized jointly by multiple countries through division of labor and cooperation, thus connects the industries of all countries into the global trade network. The centrality in the trade network has increasingly become a comprehensive indicator reflecting the breadth and depth of a country's trade and the security of the supply chain and has caused widespread concern. However, the research on the structure and impact mechanism of the global trade network in the existing literature is relatively scarce, especially the research on the impact of industrial digitalization on the global trade network in the context of the digital economy. Under the background of deep adjustment and reconstruction of global value chain, exploiting the opportunity of digital transformation to promote the centrality in trade network is an important way for China to advance the modernization of industrial chain and supply chain. Based on the 2005-2015 world input-output table published by OECD, this paper uses the social network analysis method to investigate the characteristic facts of the evolution of the trade network pivot position of various economies, and empirically analyzes the impact of industrial digitalization on the position of the global trade network with semiparametric estimation, panel threshold models, etc. The findings indicate that the pivot position of most developed economies had declined, and the pivot position of emerging developing economies, especially Asian economies, had improved. In the global trade network in 2018, China entered the core circle layer of the network and as the only developing country, has successfully upgraded from a regional hub to a global hub. Industrial digitalization could promote the pivot position of the global trade network, but this promotion effect is heterogeneous due to the industrial characteristics and different digital penetration of agriculture, primary manufacturing, advanced manufacturing and service industries, and presents a nonlinear marginal decreasing effect with the improvement of industrial digital penetration. The penetration of industry digitalization could promote the industrial pivot position by deepening the embedding of the global value chain, enhancing export competitive advantage, and improving the division of labor in the value chain. Compared with the previous literature, this paper expands from the following two aspects: firstly, unlike the previous literature, which studies the structure or influence factors of the global trade network of a single or a few industries, this paper includes most of the industries in the world input-output table, thus the research conclusions have more general significance. Secondly, most scholars pay attention to the role of the global trade network position on other economic variables, while this paper analyzes the impact mechanism of industrial digitalization on the position of the global trade network centrality from the theoretical and empirical perspectives and expands the relevant literature on the impact mechanism of the global trade network. The research in this paper reveals the effect and mechanism of the level of industrial digitalization on the position of the global trade network, analyzes the structural changes of the global trade network, and helps China improve its position in the global trade network under the background of anti-globalization and trade protectionism. Based on the research, this paper proposes policy suggestions that China should build a new ecosystem of the global value chain with open cooperation, a win-win situation by digitalization, and promote China's industries to build new advantages in international competition, improve the ability to cope with global supply chain risks and promote high-level international exchange and cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]