General Secretary Supreme Leader’s important exposition on new quality productivity is a new development of Marxist productivity theory, which provides scientific theoretical guidance and action guide for comprehensively grasping the breakthrough direction of a new round of scientific and technological revolution in the new era, promoting the high-quality development of productivity and comprehensively promoting Chinese modernization. New quality productivity is a new form of productivity which is closely combined with new technologies represented by big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and green low-carbon technology and new elements such as digital intelligent machinery and equipment, digital intelligent workers, digital infrastructure, massive data, computing power, new energy and new materials. Compared with traditional productivity, new quality productivity is a new type of high-quality productivity that represents new technology, creates new value, adapts to new industries and reshapes new kinetic energy. It has the characteristics of high technology, high efficiency and high quality, and is a productivity that meets the requirements of high-quality development. Accelerating the development of new quality productive forces is a complex systematic project, which must be comprehensively planned and systematically promoted.
Accelerate the formation of new production relations that are compatible with new quality productivity. The relations of production must adapt to the requirements of the development of productive forces, and the development of new quality productive forces also needs to build a system and mechanism that adapts to it. Establish a high-standard market system, innovate the allocation mode of production factors, further optimize the macro environment for developing new quality productivity, and enable all kinds of advanced and high-quality production factors to flow smoothly to new quality productivity. Expand high-level opening to the outside world and create a good international cooperation environment for developing new quality productive forces. Accelerate the improvement of scientific research management system and mechanism, establish a set of scientific and technological innovation evaluation system with the development of new quality productivity as the core, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into new quality productivity. Further improve the laws and regulations related to scientific and technological innovation, further refine the regulations on intellectual property protection of new quality productive forces, accelerate the improvement of the intellectual property trading market, and promote the rapid transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
Provide important talent support for developing new quality productive forces. The development of new-quality productive forces requires a large number of new-type talents with high-tech cultural quality, the ability to comprehensively use all kinds of cutting-edge technologies and the proficiency in various new production tools. We must promote the deep integration of education and personnel training with innovation chain and industrial chain, and improve the working mechanism of personnel training, introduction, use and rational flow. According to the new trend of scientific and technological development, optimize the discipline setting and talent training mode of research-oriented colleges and universities, and accelerate the formation of a talent structure that meets the development needs of new quality productive forces. Pay attention to the advantages of vocational education in cultivating professional skilled personnel, make vocational education adapt to the development trend of digitalization and intelligence as soon as possible, and continuously improve the quality of vocational and technical personnel training required by new quality productivity.
Strengthen the scientific and technological support for developing new quality productive forces. 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. To accelerate the development of new quality productive forces, we need to take subversive and breakthrough innovations in the frontier technology field as the premise, give full play to the advantages of China’s socialist system in concentrating on major events, tackle key scientific and technological projects, accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and lay a solid foundation for key core technologies, so that original and subversive scientific and technological innovations can emerge in competition. Promote collaborative innovation and integrated development of production, learning and research. Advance deployment, comprehensively carry out forward-looking, pioneering and exploratory frontier technology research, vigorously support industrial application research, break through a number of core key technologies in key industries and strategic emerging industries, and form a number of scientific and technological achievements with independent intellectual property rights and large-scale application prospects. Actively guide innovation elements to gather in enterprises, strengthen the awareness and ability of independent innovation of enterprises, strengthen the driving role of scientific and technological innovation in strategic emerging industries, and promote more scientific and technological achievements to be transformed into realistic new quality productivity.
Accelerate the cultivation and development of the data factor market. Attach importance to the position of data elements in production activities and establish a standardized data element management system. Clearly define the property rights of data elements from the legal level, set up a nationwide data confirmation registration platform as soon as possible, and clarify the implementation methods for defining data property rights; Establish the value evaluation system of data elements as soon as possible, and make clear the indicators of reliability, sharing and practicality of data elements, so as to evaluate and trade data elements more accurately. Accelerate the improvement of the data element market and stimulate the creation and circulation of data elements. Further strengthen the open sharing of data, break down the barriers of data elements, and make data generate greater value in circulation. Continuously monitor and regularly evaluate the effectiveness of data security measures, and constantly improve and strengthen data security strategies according to the situation.
Improve the productivity level of digital empowerment and new quality. Accelerating the formation of new quality productivity is inseparable from the deep development and wide application of digital technology. Therefore, it is necessary to keep up with the global digital development trend and accelerate the digital industrialization and industrial digital transformation and upgrading. On the one hand, accelerate the process of digital industrialization. Promote the transformation of digital technology innovation achievements, further consolidate the construction of big data centers and digital infrastructure, and build a world-class digital industry cluster. On the other hand, efforts should be made to promote the digital transformation of traditional industries. Promote the deep integration of digital technology and real economy, make full use of modern digital information technology, advanced internet and artificial intelligence technology to transform traditional manufacturing industry in a systematic, all-round and all-chain way, and promote the digital transformation of traditional industries in decision-making, production and operation through the digital and intelligent transformation of R&D, design, production technology, production management and sales service and the whole process of manufacturing, and by speeding up the construction of information network infrastructure, building industrial internet platform and strengthening policy service guidance and other systematic projects.
Consolidate the computing power foundation for developing new quality productive forces. Computing power is an important basic function for developing new quality productivity. Only by comprehensively improving the level of computing power can new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence be successfully implemented, the value of data elements can be fully explored, and strategic emerging industries and future industries can be rapidly developed. Further increase capital investment and support in the chip field, promote the improvement of advanced technology and design capability of chip manufacturing, promote the innovation of chip design and manufacturing technology, promote the research and popularization and application of supercomputers, and accelerate the upgrading of hardware foundation for building high-quality computing power. Strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, absorb international advanced experience and technology in the field of algorithms and software, accelerate the exploration of new computing fields such as quantum computing, optical computing and brain like computing, increase the protection of intellectual property rights in the field of algorithms and software, and accelerate the upgrading of the software foundation of high-quality computing power. Pay attention to optimizing the layout of computing power, continue to promote the project of "calculating from east to west", promote the ecological development of computing power industry, and expand the application of computing power technology in various industries.
Increase the green kinetic energy of developing new quality productivity. Accelerating the development of new quality productive forces inevitably requires accelerating the green transformation of productive forces, helping to achieve carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions, driving the development of green industries with green technology, expanding the scale of green economy, and taking a resource-saving and eco-friendly development path. Accelerate the construction of demand-oriented, problem-oriented and market-oriented green technology innovation system, accelerate the promotion of international competitiveness of advanced green low-carbon technologies, further reduce the cost of R&D and promotion of green technologies, and promote the popularization and application of advanced green technologies. Vigorously develop green finance and carbon trading market, develop and expand energy-saving and environmental protection, clean production and clean energy industries, strengthen green manufacturing industry, develop green service industry, expand green energy industry, develop green low-carbon industry and supply chain, and build efficient ecological green industrial clusters and green ecological industrial zones. Advocate the concept of green consumption and low-carbon life, promote the energy revolution, consumption revolution and green low-carbon production lifestyle, build a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system, and build a green, low-carbon and circular economy development system. Promote resource conservation and recycling, reduce energy consumption and material consumption, realize the circular link between production system and living system, and comprehensively build a green and low-carbon circular economy system.
Comprehensively optimize the financial supply supporting the development of new quality productive forces. Accelerate the improvement of the financial system to promote the development of new-quality productive forces, and do a good job of financial supply to fully support the development of new-quality productive forces. Give full play to the positive role of capital market in encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship, promoting industrial upgrading and optimizing corporate governance, accelerate the improvement and perfection of multi-level capital market, and provide financial services covering the whole life cycle of enterprises; Further expand the venture capital market and promote the development of a number of revolutionary and subversive start-ups in the field of technology. Give full play to the role of banks at all levels in supporting scientific and technological innovation of enterprises and industrial transformation and upgrading, and encourage banking institutions to actively develop innovative credit products. Increase the support of special loans for science and technology and industrial development, and enhance the participation of banks in major scientific and technological research projects and industrial transformation and upgrading projects. Further improve the construction of the guarantee system, enhance the guarantee of policy financing guarantee funds for enterprise science and technology innovation loans, and create a good market environment for scientific and technological innovation loan guarantees.
(Author: Shi Jianxun, deputy dean of Tongji University’s National Institute of Innovation and Development, Professor school of economics and management, special researcher of Shanghai Supreme Leader New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center)