Abstract: Using the Industrial Robot data, Customs Database and Industrial Enterprise Database from 2006 to 2015, match the industrial intelligence level of 211 prefecture-level cities with the degree of city global value chain embedment, and examine the impact and mechanism of city industrial intelligence on the degree of global value chain embedment. The results show that the improvement of industrial intelligence has significantly improved the city's global value chain embedment. The results of robustness and endogeneity tests show that this conclusion is robust and credible; the analysis of heterogeneity found that there exist significant regional and industry differences in the impact of industrial intelligence on the city global value chain embedment, and industrial intelligence enhances the degree of the city value chain embedment, which is mainly manifested in ordinary trade; mechanism analysis shows that the positive influence of industrial intelligence on the degree of city global value chain embedment is mainly to increase labor productivity, improve labor mismatch and distortion. The policy implications of this paper are to accelerate the process of industrial intelligence in cities and improve the efficiency of labor allocation to enhance the level of city global value chain embedment.