At the two sessions of the National People's Congress, "new quality productivity" has become a hot word. The work report will "vigorously promote the construction of a modern industrial system and accelerate the development of new quality productivity" in the first place in the 2024 work task, and the representatives and members have also based themselves on their respective fields to make suggestions on how to cultivate and accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.
It can be said that consolidating the momentum of economic improvement and achieving new breakthroughs in high-quality development through the development of new quality productive forces has become an important topic of the times.
1) Productivity iteration is the endogenous engine of development, who can seize the opportunity of productivity transformation and upgrading, who can truly grasp the initiative of competition and development.
The so-called new quality productive forces, that is, the new type of productive forces that are different from the traditional productive forces, are the qualitative states of advanced productive forces with the characteristics of high technology, high efficiency, and high quality, and conform to the new development concept.
The proposal of this new concept comes from an accurate grasp of the current domestic and foreign economic environment, and also carries in-depth thinking about high-quality development.
As a general rule, exchanging resources for capital and markets for technology is the basic strategy for developing countries to achieve economic take-off in the low-income stage. After entering the middle-income stage, the comparative advantages of developing countries have changed, and the mode of technological progress has shifted from relying mainly on imitation to relying more and more on independent innovation.
In the history of the world economy, all countries that have transformed into high-income economies have successfully transitioned from a factor-driven development model to an innovation-driven development model.
In terms of China's current economic development situation and stage, resource and environmental constraints, population aging and other problems exist in reality, through the continuous promotion of the development of new technologies, new models and new industries, the effective use of resources, the effective protection of the environment and the sustainable growth of the economy can be realized. The development of new quality productive forces will first help resolve some deep-seated contradictions and problems in China's economic development.
2) Combined with the general trend of development, with the collective rise of emerging economies, it is inevitable that they will compete with developed countries in some fields, and therefore they will increasingly encounter the suppression of protectionism and technological bullying. In an external environment where uncertainty has increased significantly, in order to break through all kinds of containment, both obvious and potential, we must create more "things of our own", and we must work hard to develop new quality productive forces and cross more "no man's land".
For China, a new round of technological and industrial revolution is in the ascendant, with emerging technologies such as generative artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces, 6G, quantum computing, flexible batteries, and high-temperature superconductivity emerging, which provide valuable opportunities for us to develop new quality productivity.
Taking advantage of the momentum in the new "spring of science" and promoting the leap in the development of productive forces will help us build a new national competitiveness, so as to win the initiative in the development of cutting-edge competition in core technologies.
3) The core of the new quality productive forces is scientific and technological innovation, but it is not general scientific and technological innovation, but the innovation of basic science, cutting-edge technology and disruptive technology with great potential.
This kind of leap from "0 to 1" is destined to be a process of accumulation and development, and it is not possible to rush forward and make small troubles, nor can it be done in a hurry to get on the horse and rush for quick success. In this regard, the institutional advantage of "concentrating on doing great things" under the new first-class system is our core competitiveness.
Taking Beijing's scientific and technological innovation practice as an example, the Beijing Office has been formed with 10 relevant departments and units of the Ministry of Science and Technology and other countries, forming a "double director" mechanism to gather strength to carry out original and leading scientific and technological research; Strengthen "patience + patience capital", provide lasting policy support for the selected track technology, and provide patient capital cultivation for potential track technology in the society.
Facts have also fully proved that starting from the source supply, application transformation, supporting services, etc., accelerate the implementation of reform measures in terms of empowerment of scientific and technological achievements, salary system, assessment and evaluation, etc., and do everything possible to ensure that pioneers have no distractions, and avoid short-sighted thinking and the concept of "making quick money" to the greatest extent, so that the source of creativity can fully flow.
4) In recent years, from time to time, some people have been wearing "colored glasses" to sing about China's decline and talk about "China's prosperity is coming to an end". Such a "peaking" argument ignores a basic fact that China's economy has shifted from a stage of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development in the new era, and has started a transformation from a factor input-driven to an innovation-driven one.
In recent years, the new quality of productivity has begun to emerge. For example, the "new three" of foreign trade, last year, the total export volume exceeded the trillion yuan mark for the first time, an increase of 29 over the previous year9%, pushing China to become the world's largest country in automobile manufacturing and solar installed capacity.
It turns out that today's profitable investment is tomorrow's high-quality supply. By developing new productive forces in accordance with local conditions and accumulating more emerging momentum, China's "high-growth" economy will respond to those fallacies with bright colors.
If you do it, it will be easy for those who are difficult; If you don't, it's easy and it's hard. Chinese have never lacked the pride of "daring to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky", nor have they lacked the resilience of "biting the green mountains and not relaxing". Give full play to the advantages of the system and work the basis of scientific decision-making, the new quality productivity will definitely accelerate the growth of joints, and the road of high-quality development will definitely be broader and broader.
*: Governor of Chang'an Street.