Deeply understand and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces

　　Deeply understand and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces

　　Commentator of Qiushi magazine

　　"Developing new-quality productive forces is an inherent requirement and an important focus for promoting high-quality development. We must continue to do a good job in innovation and promote the accelerated development of new-quality productive forces."

　　On January 31, 2024, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader delivered an important speech when he presided over the 11th collective study in the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, systematically expounded the scientific connotation of new quality productivity from the combination of theory and practice, profoundly pointed out the great significance of developing new quality productivity, and put forward clear requirements for developing new quality productivity. From putting forward "new quality productive forces" during a local inspection in 2023, to emphasizing "developing new quality productive forces" at the Central Economic Work Conference, and then making a systematic exposition during the collective study of the Politburo, the General Secretary’s series of important expositions and major arrangements on developing new quality productive forces have profoundly answered the important theoretical and practical questions of "what is new quality productive forces, why should we develop new quality productive forces, and how to develop new quality productive forces", which provides a basis for promoting high-quality development in the new journey.

　　High-quality development needs the guidance of new productivity theory.

　　Marxism holds that productivity is the material premise of all social life, the most active and revolutionary factor to promote social progress, and the productivity standard is a fundamental standard to measure social development. Marx and Engels pointed out that "the sum of people’s productive forces determines the social situation". Unswervingly promoting the development of productive forces and constantly improving people’s living standards on this basis is the fundamental starting point of all our party’s work.

　　The fundamental task of socialism is to liberate and develop social productive forces, and the superiority of socialism over capitalism lies in its ability to develop productive forces faster and better. After the founding of New China, Comrade Mao Zedong proposed that "the purpose of socialist revolution is to liberate productive forces". After the reform and opening up, Comrade Deng Xiaoping clearly pointed out that "there are many tasks of socialism, but the fundamental one is to develop productive forces". Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, our Party has only spent several decades leading the people to complete the industrialization process that developed countries have gone through for hundreds of years, promoting China’s development into the second largest economy in the world, and creating a miracle of rapid economic development that is rare in the world. It is extremely important to attach great importance to productivity standards, always adhere to the liberation and development of social productivity, and constantly enhance the comprehensive national strength of socialist countries.

　　Entering a new era, China’s economic development has entered a new stage. The CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core regards adhering to high-quality development as the last word in the new era, consistently liberates and develops social productive forces, makes a series of major decisions and arrangements, and pushes China’s economy to a higher-quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable and safer development path. The level of productive forces has achieved great improvement and breakthrough development, forming a new qualitative state of productive forces development. In view of this new situation, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader clearly pointed out that "the new quality productivity has been formed in practice and has shown a strong driving force and support for high-quality development".

　　At the same time, we should also see that there are still a lot of factors restricting high-quality development, such as some key core technologies being controlled by people, the problems of "big but not strong" and "all but not excellent" in the industry, and the pressure of transforming the production and living system to green and low carbon, and so on. To further promote high-quality development, we must form new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, firmly grasp key core technologies in our own hands, build a modern industrial system that is self-controllable, safe, reliable and competitive, build a green and low-carbon circular economy system, and realize connotative growth driven by innovation. In the final analysis, it is to achieve greater breakthroughs and greater development at the level of productivity. This puts forward a new topic for our theoretical development, and we need to further deepen our understanding of the new quality productivity. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that the development of new quality productive forces "requires us to summarize and generalize theoretically to guide new development practice". General Secretary Supreme Leader’s important exposition on developing new-quality productive forces points out the important focus of promoting high-quality development, embodies a profound grasp of the development law of productive forces and the outstanding problems facing China’s development, and is a profound summary of the law of China’s economic construction, further innovating and developing Marxist productive forces theory, which is an important part of Supreme Leader’s economic thought and has important theoretical and practical significance. We must study deeply and deeply understand it and use it to guide practice.

　　Grasping the scientific connotation of new quality productivity

　　What is new quality productivity? General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "In a nutshell, the new quality productivity is an 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. It was born out of revolutionary breakthrough in technology, innovative allocation of production factors, and deep transformation and upgrading of industries. The basic connotation is the leap of laborers, labor materials, labor objects and their optimized combinations, and the core symbol is the substantial improvement of total factor productivity. Its characteristics are innovation, the key is high quality, and the essence is advanced productivity. " This important exposition profoundly points out the basic theoretical issues such as the characteristics, basic connotations, core symbols, characteristics, keys and essence of the new-quality productive forces, and provides a fundamental basis for us to accurately grasp the scientific connotation of the new-quality productive forces.

　　New-quality productivity is an advanced productivity with innovation as the leading role, and its characteristic is innovation. The key to grasping the new quality productivity lies in a deep understanding of the key role of innovation in improving productivity. Looking back at history, from the mechanization of the first industrial revolution in the 18th century to the electrification of the second industrial revolution in the 19th century, and then to the informationization of the third industrial revolution in the 20th century, subversive scientific and technological innovations have brought about great liberation of social productive forces and great leap in living standards, which fundamentally changed the development track of human history. Some countries have seized the rare opportunity of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and their comprehensive national strength has increased rapidly, even becoming a world power. At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is ready to go, and some major disruptive technological innovations are creating new industries and new formats. Information technology, biotechnology, manufacturing technology, new material technology and new energy technology have penetrated into almost all fields, which has led to major group technological changes characterized by green, intelligence and ubiquity. We have ushered in the historic intersection of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation in the world and the transformation of development mode in China, and are faced with a once-in-a-lifetime historical opportunity. New quality productive forces have emerged as the times require and have continued to grow and develop in practice. New quality productivity represents the new direction and trend of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and represents the development direction of advanced productivity. To accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces is to gain a leading position in the development of productive forces, take the lead in new fields and new tracks, and win the initiative in development in fierce international competition.

　　Marx pointed out that "productivity, that is, the development of production capacity and its elements" and "labor productivity is developing with the continuous progress of science and technology". New quality productivity is the product of productivity development and scientific and technological progress, and it is a revolutionary promotion of human ability to transform nature. This promotion is holistic and fundamental, and as its constituent elements, workers, labor materials and labor objects must also have new connotations. As far as workers are concerned, workers are the most active factor in productivity. What matches the new quality productivity is no longer ordinary workers who focus on simple repetitive work, but strategic talents who can create new quality productivity and applied talents who can master new quality production materials skillfully. As far as labor materials are concerned, as a "measuring instrument for the development of human labor force", with the development and wide application of original technology and subversive technology, more and more new production tools will be produced, and old and backward production tools will be gradually replaced by new and advanced production tools, which is also the main symbol of the development of productive forces. As far as the object of labor is concerned, the improvement and extensive use of labor materials will inevitably lead to the expansion of the scope of labor objects, including not only traditional natural materials, but also intangible forms such as data that are not limited by space and time.

　　Only by combining various factors of production can we form realistic productive forces. New quality productivity is not only reflected in the innovative development of various factors, but also in the innovative development of the combination of production factors. With the development and changes of laborers, labor materials and labor objects in the new quality productivity, the optimized combination of the three will also undergo revolutionary changes, bringing new industries, new formats and new models, and forming new kinetic energy and new advantages that drive economic development. Productivity determines production relations, and production relations react on productivity. The formation of new quality productive forces will inevitably lead to revolutionary changes in production relations, and it is necessary to form new production relations to adapt to them, and protect, liberate and develop them. Constantly reforming and perfecting the relations of production and forming new management modes and new institutional mechanisms are important guarantees for promoting the continuous development of new quality productive forces.

　　In a word, we should deeply realize that the new quality productivity is not the local optimization and simple iteration of the traditional productivity, but the advanced productivity, which is spawned by the revolutionary breakthrough of technology, the innovative allocation of production factors and the deep transformation and upgrading of industries. It will certainly bring about changes in the development mode and production mode, promote the new leap of China’s social productivity and lay a more solid material and technological foundation for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.

　　Promote new quality productivity and accelerate development.

　　"We can’t fall behind on the new track", "We should catch up, strive to achieve, run and even lead". At the Central Economic Work Conference in 2023, the words of the Supreme Leader General Secretary were inspiring. On the new journey of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, the most fundamental thing to promote Chinese modernization is to realize the modernization of productive forces. The essence of new quality productivity is advanced productivity. It is necessary to unify thoughts and actions with the spirit of the important speech of the Supreme Leader General Secretary and the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, focus on the central task of economic construction and the primary task of high-quality development, further enhance the consciousness and initiative of promoting the development of new-quality productive forces, and improve the practical skills of promoting the development of new-quality productive forces.

　　— — Accelerate scientific and technological innovation. Scientific and technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models and new kinetic energy, which is the core element of developing new quality productivity. We must strengthen scientific and technological innovation, especially original and subversive scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, lay a solid battle for key core technologies, and cultivate new kinetic energy for developing new quality productive forces.

　　— — Accelerate industrial innovation. Industry is the carrier of productive forces, and scientific and technological achievements can only become social productive forces through industrialization. It is necessary to apply scientific and technological innovations 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. Layout the industrial chain around the development of new quality productivity, improve the resilience and safety level of the industrial chain supply chain, and ensure that the industrial system is self-controllable, safe and reliable.

　　— — Accelerate the innovation of development mode. Green development is the background of high-quality development, and new quality productivity itself is green productivity. We must speed up the green transformation of development mode, firmly establish and practice Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets’s concept, unswervingly take the road of ecological priority and green development, and vigorously advocate a green and healthy lifestyle in the whole society.

　　— — Accelerate the innovation of system and mechanism. The relations of production must meet the requirements of the development of productive forces. To develop new quality productive forces, we must further deepen the reform in an all-round way and form a new type of production relationship that is suitable for it. It is necessary to deepen the reform of the economic system and the scientific and technological system, and strive to get through the blocking points that constrain the development of new quality productive forces. Expand high-level opening to the outside world and create a good international environment for the development of new quality productive forces.

　　— — Accelerate the innovation of talent work mechanism. Talent is the first resource, and the essence of innovation drive is talent drive. In the final analysis, the development of new quality productive forces depends on innovative talents. In accordance with the requirements of developing new quality productive forces, we should smooth the virtuous circle of education, science and technology and talents, and improve the working mechanism of talent training, introduction, use and rational flow. Improve the income distribution mechanism in which factors participate, and create a good atmosphere to encourage innovation and tolerate failure.