News Background
**In September 2023, the general secretary proposed to accelerate the formation of new quality productivity in his speech at the symposium on promoting the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era; At the first economic work conference held at the end of last year, the development of new quality productive forces was emphasized; On January 31 this year, at the 11th collective study of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, he emphasized that the development of new quality productivity is an inherent requirement and an important focus for promoting high-quality development.
A deep understanding of the scientific connotation of new quality productivity is of great theoretical and practical significance for vigorously developing new quality productivity and promoting high-quality economic development.
**The general secretary pointed out that the new quality of productivity is the quality of advanced productivity that plays a leading role in innovation, gets rid of the traditional economic growth mode and productivity development path, has the characteristics of high technology, high efficiency and high quality, and conforms to the new development concept. First of all, the new quality productivity is a new type of productivity with independent innovation as the starting point. **The general secretary pointed out that scientific and technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, which is the core element of the development of new quality productivity. To develop new quality productive forces, we should attach great importance to scientific and technological innovation, especially scientific and technological innovation with original and disruptive technologies, attach great importance to the leading position of scientific and technological innovation in development, and give full play to the incremental role of scientific and technological innovation; It is necessary to apply the achievements of scientific and technological innovation to specific industries and industrial chains in a timely manner, and promote industrial upgrading and transformation with scientific and technological innovation. The new quality productivity drives the upgrading and development of industries with new technologies and new processes, and promotes industrial upgrading and transformation with institutional innovation, so that the new industries formed based on new technologies become the new driving force and new engine of economic development. Second, the new quality productivity is a high-performance productivity that focuses on improving total factor productivity. The development of new quality productive forces aims to create a high-efficiency development path with low input of production factors, high efficiency in resource allocation, low cost of resources and environment, and good economic and social benefits. Entering the new era, the resource endowment conditions of China's economic development have undergone profound changes, natural resources, environmental pollution, climate change and other factors have formed hard constraints on economic development, relying on resource investment to support the economic growth mode has reached the limit, the driving force of economic development has also shifted from mainly relying on resource input and low-cost labor and other factors to relying on scientific and technological innovation, institutional innovation and the construction of high-quality talents, focusing on improving total factor productivity, and promoting the economy to achieve effective qualitative improvement and reasonable quantitative growth. Thirdly, the new quality productivity is an advanced productivity with the goal of high-quality development. The new quality productivity is an innovation-driven productivity formed under the conditions of informatization and intelligence, formed in the historical process of scientific and technological resource innovation and industrial upgrading and transformation, representing the qualitative change of social production capacity, and is the internal requirement and important focus of high-quality development. Promoting quality with new is the core essence of new quality productivity. The new quality productivity is highly in line with the new development concept, and will achieve comprehensive breakthroughs in increasing scientific and technological innovation and institutional innovation, deepening reform, focusing on green development and coordinated development, focusing on improving the quality and efficiency of economic development, promoting the strategic adjustment of economic structure, and achieving high-quality development.
The new quality productivity is a new quality of the productive forces under the new technological revolution, with the new characteristics given by the new era and new technologies. The first is digital intelligence. Digital technology is being fully integrated into all fields and processes of human economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization construction with new ideas, new forms of business and new models, bringing extensive and profound impact on human production and life. Digital technology is the driving force of this round of scientific and technological revolution, and digitalization is the basic form of new quality productivity. As an advanced form of digitalization, artificial intelligence is an important driving force for a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. At present, the rapid development of artificial intelligence has stimulated profound changes in manufacturing models, production methods and industrial forms, and has become a new direction leading industrial development. The second is greening. Green development is the background color of high-quality development, and new quality productivity itself is green productivity. To develop new quality productivity, we should take green technology innovation and development of green advanced technology as the driving force for green development, increase basic research on green science and technology innovation, strengthen green manufacturing, develop green service industry, expand green energy industry, develop green and low-carbon industries and chains, and build a green and low-carbon circular economy systemIt is necessary to coordinate the "toolbox" of fiscal, tax, financial, and other policies, and form policy guidelines to promote the green development of enterprises and force enterprises to reduce pollution and reduce emissionsStrengthen the legal protection of the ecological environment and natural resources, implement the strictest ecological environment governance system, promote the formation of a green and healthy lifestyle in the whole society, and form a new pattern of harmonious coexistence with nature. The third is synergy. The new quality of productivity has the basic characteristics of industrial coordination and multi-party linkage, and coordination has become the organizational form of social production under the new quality of productivity. Relying on big data, the Internet, and artificial intelligence, the new quality productivity has realized the effective integration of resource information, built an industrial Internet public service platform, and realized the accurate docking of supply and demand. At the same time, with production as the center, we will build a collaborative cooperation mechanism between universities, universities and enterprises to realize the effective transformation of scientific research achievements and enable the scientific research team to empower the development of enterprises. Fourth, autonomy. Ensuring the security of national development through autonomy is the development concept and practical characteristic of new quality productivity. Independence and self-reliance have always been the basic principles of national development. In order to ensure China's development security and seize the development advantage in international competition, we must take independence as the basic principle for developing new quality productive forces.
To develop new quality productive forces, it is necessary to speed up the building of a contingent of qualified personnel and cultivate high-quality talent. **The general secretary pointed out that in accordance with the requirements of the development of new quality productive forces, the virtuous circle of education, science and technology, and talents should be smoothed, and the working mechanism of talent training, introduction, use, and rational flow should be improved. To speed up the development of new quality productive forces, in the final analysis, we must rely on the building of a contingent of qualified personnel, especially the building of a contingent of high-quality qualified personnel. China is a big country in human resources, but compared with the strategic requirements of the development of new quality productivity, the existing talent team is not perfect, the talent training model and training mechanism are not perfect, and the power of talent construction to lead innovation and development is insufficient.
To develop new quality productive forces, it is necessary to lay out and build future industries and improve the modern industrial system. Industry is the main carrier and form of realization of productive forces. **The general secretary pointed out that it is necessary to apply scientific and technological innovation achievements to specific industries and industrial chains in a timely manner, transform and upgrade traditional industries, cultivate and expand emerging industries, lay out and build future industries, and improve the modern industrial system. On the one hand, through emerging technologies such as digital technology, network technology, and artificial intelligence, the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries will be realized, and the traditional industries will be promoted to move towards high-end, intelligent, green, collaborative and autonomous, so as to realize the upgrading and transformation of traditional industries and the improvement of their status in the global value chain. On the other hand, we will vigorously develop strategic future industries and emerging industries, focus on global scientific and technological competition such as the metaverse, quantum information, and humanoid robots, strive for the "first-mover advantage", and win the initiative for future development.
To develop new quality productive forces, it is necessary to comprehensively deepen reform and remove obstacles to development. ** The general secretary stressed that to develop new quality productive forces, it is necessary to further deepen the reform in an all-round way and form a new type of production relationship that is compatible with it. Create a fair, efficient and orderly market environment, vigorously cultivate leading enterprises and carrier space on new technologies and new tracks, and let all kinds of advanced and high-quality production factors flow smoothly to the development of new quality productivity. Further deepen reforms, break down the institutional and institutional obstacles that restrict the development of new quality productive forces, and stimulate the vitality of total factor production, such as deepening the reform of the scientific and technological system, optimizing the evaluation system of scientific and technological achievements, improving the conversion rate of scientific research achievements, and supporting the popularization and diffusion of common technologies.
The author's affiliation is the Institute of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Peking University
China Education Daily, 2024-02-29, 5th edition
Author: Liu Shuyang, Wang Puqiao.