In the background of our country’s “ Belt and Road ” strategy, the current situation of the deep research of China’s superiority manufacturing industry is an important basis for further development. In this paper, we focus on the manufacturing industry in China as a target industry, which is proposed in relevant documents of the Chinese State Council. We also analyze and evaluate the development of the target industry in China from 1995 to 2014 by calculating the value-added data of the trade and the GVC-related indexes. Research shows (1) that the advantages are obvious with superiority manufacturing industry compared to the manufacturing sector as a whole, especially the middle-level and high-level technology industry with significant competitiveness; (2) that the export of intermediate goods of nuclear power industry, aviation industry and high-speed rail industry mainly depend on the domestic added value to realize the climax of the global value chain. The competitive advantage of the textile industry as a low-tech industry is always apparent but declining; (3) that in the global vertical specialization deepening development, Chinese manufacturing industries which participate in the international division of labor have weakened the trend, reflecting the characteristics of industrial structure adjustment and the value chain of internalization.