Deep Understanding of the Connotation of New Quality Productivity

Scientific and technological innovation is the essential requirement and strategic support of Chinese-style modernization, and is the first driving force to lead high-quality development. In September this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward "new quality productivity" for the first time during his inspection in Heilongjiang, emphasizing: "Integrate scientific and technological innovation resources, lead the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries, and accelerate the formation of new quality productivity." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition provides scientific guidance for accelerating scientific and technological innovation and promoting high-quality development in the new era and new journey. To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Jinping's important speech, it is necessary to deeply understand and correctly grasp the connotation of new quality productivity, actively open up new fields and new ways of development, and shape new development momentum and new advantages to empower Chinese-style modernization and win the initiative in development.

Historical materialism believes that productivity is the ability of mankind to transform and conquer nature, and it is the decisive force and source of power to promote the continuous development of human civilization. Productivity is a complex system, and workers, labor materials and labor objects are the basic elements of productivity. Engels pointed out: "With every epoch-making discovery in the field of natural science, materialism must also change its form." Today, human society is accelerating into the digital age. Digital technologies represented by 5G, big data, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence are profoundly changing people's production, life and social interactions. The iterative upgrading of science and technology promotes the transformation of the mode of production, and the new quality productivity is the product of the accelerated evolution of science and technology and social development, and is the new driving force for high-quality development. The new quality productivity is the overall leap of the productivity system, which is reflected in the improvement and expansion of the quality of workers, labor materials and labor objects.

　New quality productivity is the cultivation of high-quality workers and the cohesion of workers.

Among the three elements of productivity, the laborer is the leading element. Only when the labor materials and labor objects are combined with the creative activities of the laborer can they be transformed into actual productivity. The development of social productive forces is essentially the development of the quality of workers, and the quality of workers must always adapt to the productive forces and production relations at each stage of development. According to data from the Ministry of Education in 2022, my country has built the world's largest higher education system, with 0.24 billion million people receiving higher education, and the average number of years of education for the new labor force has reached 13.8 years. The continuous increase of the population receiving higher education will continue to inject fresh blood into the workforce and optimize the structure of the workforce. Under the promotion of informatization and digitization, the vision, knowledge and ability of workers who have received higher education have been greatly expanded and improved, which provides a strong guarantee of human resources for the formation of new quality productivity.

Innovation-driven is essentially talent-driven. To speed up the formation of new-quality productive forces, it is necessary to fully mobilize and stimulate people's enthusiasm, initiative and creativity. It is necessary to thoroughly implement the strategy of strengthening the country with talents, cultivate more masters, strategic scientists, first-class scientific and technological leaders, and innovative teams, and further strengthen the talent support for the formation of new-quality productivity. To speed up the formation of new quality productivity, we need not only "high-tech" scientific and technological talents, but also a large number of high-quality technical and skilled personnel, craftsmen of big countries, and skilled craftsmen. It is necessary to deepen the supply-side structural reform of vocational education, promote the integration of vocational education, the integration of production and education, and the integration of science and education, improve the lifelong vocational skills training system, and train a large number of new workers. It is necessary to implement a more active, more open, and more effective talent introduction policy, give full play to the functions of leading enterprises, colleges and universities, etc., and form an attractive and competitive talent system.

　　New quality productivity is the application and popularization of new production factors and high-tech production tools.

Marx pointed out in "Das Kapital": "The difference between various economic eras lies not in what is produced, but in how to produce and what means of labor are used to produce." With the full opening of the digital age, data has officially become a new factor of production after land, labor, capital and technology. The birth and application of data elements give productivity amplification, superposition and multiplication. On the one hand, by virtue of its virtuality, permeability, easy replication and other characteristics, data elements quickly integrate into all aspects of social production and social life, and are mastered by the majority of workers. On the other hand, thanks to the rapid development of digital infrastructure and mobile communication networks, China has gained a comparative advantage in the field of digital economy and has become a major country in the development of global digital economy. Under the dual blessing of demographic dividend and market advantage, China's huge population and large market size are rapidly transformed into data resource advantages and application scenario advantages. Marx proposed that the means of labor is not only a measure of the development of human labor, but also an indicator of the social relations through which labor is carried out. Massive data resources and huge data scale will explode huge productivity in the future, promote the upgrading and expansion of labor data, and accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.

Production tools are the core of labor data and an important symbol to distinguish different qualitative productivity. With the rapid development of digital technology, a number of high-tech and sophisticated production tools have emerged one after another, promoting systematic changes in production methods. High-tech production technologies, such as 5G, Internet of Things, blockchain and artificial intelligence, can accelerate the flow of resources, optimize the allocation of factors, enhance the systematicness and synergy of production and labor, and improve the level of social productivity. Marx pointed out: "The mechanical means of labor (the sum of which can be called the skeletal system and the muscular system of production) can better show the decisive characteristics of a social production era than the means of labor (such as tubes, barrels, baskets, cans, etc.)." With the continuous deepening of digital globalization, the widespread use and popularization of production tools with high-tech, high-performance, and modern characteristics will bring about a larger scope and deeper technological revolution, industrial transformation, and the improvement of the "quality" of production tools Accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.

　New quality productivity is the innovative creation and exploration of new labor objects.

The object of labor is a necessary prerequisite for realistic material production and an important indicator of the level of development of social productivity. The formation of new quality productivity requires the expansion and extension of traditional labor objects. In the early days of human society, nature was the natural warehouse of labor objects. With the improvement of people's production tools, human understanding, utilization and transformation of nature are expanding in depth and breadth. More natural objects and more functions of natural objects are developed and excavated to serve human production and life. Driven by the industrial revolution, human beings have continuously opened up new production fields and production channels. More synthetic materials, high-performance materials, and unconventional energy sources have been introduced into the production sector, and the material scope of labor objects has continued to expand. In the digital age, the object of labor has completed the evolution process from natural material to information data. Digital labor objects such as big data, block chain and artificial intelligence have the characteristics of processability, easy storage, intelligence and cooperation, which can be quickly and efficiently mastered and used by workers, which plays a role in optimizing and improving the processing process, efficiency and quality of labor objects, and the iterative upgrading of labor objects promotes the improvement of real productivity.

In the new era, with the in-depth advancement of major scientific and technological projects such as my country's manned spaceflight, lunar fire exploration, and deep-sea exploration, unknown areas such as deep sea, polar regions, and deserts have been explored and discovered. The emergence and application of a number of transformative technologies, cutting-edge technologies and disruptive technologies, as well as the emergence and emergence of a series of new materials, new energy and new materials, will expand the connotation and extension of labor objects on a larger scale, and then lead to great changes in the field of production and promote the overall leap of social productivity, This is the key for China to seize the technological track and seize the commanding heights of future development strategy. In the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, high-tech products, new energy, new materials, and newly opened scientific research objects are all the expansion and discovery of labor objects, and the embodiment of the "new" of new quality productivity at the level of labor objects.

The concept of "new quality productivity" is the inheritance and development of Marxist productivity theory, the deepening of the important exposition of "science and technology is the first productive force", and the latest theoretical achievement of Xi Jinping's economic thought. New quality productivity is closely connected with "strategic emerging industries" and "future industries", focusing on new industries, new technologies, new formats, and new models with high technological content, emphasizing the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries, and enhancing new development momentum. It will surely promote the development of emerging industries and future industries, promote industrial transformation, and win strategic initiative for my country to participate in the future global economic and technological competition.

(Author: Xi'an Academy of Social Sciences)