Text/Zhang Zhanbin
Editor's note: Since last year, the concept of new quality productivity has attracted attention from all walks of life. At present, both the central and local governments are speeding up the deployment and development of new quality productive forces. How to understand the practical significance of the concept of the new quality of productive forces, and where exactly is the "new" of the new quality of productive forces? In view of these questions, Zhang Zhanbin, director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Modernization of the Central Party School (National Academy of Administration), discussed these issues.
The layout and thinking of "new quality productivity".
In September last year, China's top leaders proposed the concept of "new quality productivity" during a study tour in Heilongjiang. In the author's view, the concept of "new quality productivity" is proposed to adapt to the new requirements of the high-quality development stage and further clarify the direction of action for the country's innovation and development.
How to understand the proposal of new quality productive forces? We might as well start with the northeast region, where Heilongjiang is located.
Over the past 20 years since the implementation of the Northeast Revitalization Strategy, Northeast China has gradually emerged from the pains of transformation and development, and has stepped into a new stage of comprehensive revitalization. However, there are still shortcomings and weaknesses in Northeast China in terms of institutional mechanisms, economic structure, opening up to the outside world, and ideological concepts, especially the lack of scientific and technological innovation, insufficient integration of factors, and weak reshaping of productive forces, and the urgent need for new quality productivity to effectively solve the bottleneck of development.
First, it is the main engine of economic transformation and development, and it is urgent to transform into a new quality of productive forces. The new quality productivity corresponds to the new mode of production, new science and technology, and new industrial forms, which are exactly the development models needed for the economic transformation of Northeast China.
Second, innovation-driven development is the top priority, and it is urgent to transfer to new quality productivity. The new quality productivity emphasizes innovation and highlights the new momentum of high-quality development, which is the core competitiveness of the Northeast region to be improved.
Third, the promotion force of regional coordinated development urgently needs to gather new quality productive forces. Promoting regional collaborative innovation, resource sharing and complementary advantages is also the proper meaning of the penetration and diffusion of new quality productive forces, and is the driving force needed to achieve regional coordinated development.
The proposal of "new quality productivity" is not only applicable to Northeast China, but also has important guiding significance for the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy and the realization of high-quality development of the entire Chinese economy.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's economic development has entered a "new normal", with trend changes and characteristics, including: economic growth has changed from high-speed or ultra-high-speed growth in the past to high-quality development. The engine of growth has shifted from being factor-driven to being innovation-driven. The economic structure also needs to be adjusted, and the industry will climb from the low-end to the high-end.
In this context, it is necessary to have a new strategic deployment, a new understanding of the development stage, and at the same time, economic growth is required to better meet the needs of the people for a better life, which actually puts forward higher requirements for the industry. Putting forward the concept of "new quality productivity" means reminding the whole party and the people of the whole country to look at the productive forces from a higher perspective, think about China's development from the commanding heights of competition, and focus on the most cutting-edge technologies and technologies that are most likely to affect China's future development momentum.
The "New" and "Qualitative" of New Qualitative Productivity
Regarding the connotation of the concept of new quality productivity, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee conducted the 11th collective study on solidly promoting high-quality development on January 31 this year, which was further explained.
"Generally speaking, 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. It is born by the revolutionary breakthrough of technology, the innovative allocation of production factors, and the deep transformation and upgrading of the industry, with the basic connotation of laborers, labor materials, labor objects and their optimal combinations, and the substantial increase in total factor productivity as the core symbol, characterized by innovation, the key is high quality, and the essence is advanced productivity. ”
From the perspective of historical materialism, productive forces are the ability of human beings to transform and conquer nature, the foundation of human social life and all history, and the decisive force and source of power for the continuous development of human civilization. Economic growth under the conditions of traditional productive forces mainly relies on a large amount of resource input and highly consuming resources and energy.
Marx noted: "The productive forces, that is, the development of the productive capacity and its elements. "Productivity mainly includes three basic elements: laborers, labor objects, and labor materials. Compared with the traditional qualitative productivity, the new qualitative productivity is the new qualitative productivity of the productivity factors, which has rich connotations.
In the author's view, the "new" in the new quality of productivity refers to the new industries, new methods, and new models generated by new technologies, new energy, and new business forms, and cultivating a group of new technical talents, mastering new technologies, generating new kinetic energy, new fields, and new tracks, so as to promote the productive forces to a higher level, better liberate and develop the productive forces, and promote the improvement of the productive capacity of the whole society to a greater extent. The "quality" in the new quality productivity refers to the quality, quality, and essence, including the new workers with new technologies, the emergence of new labor materials, and new labor tools, and the gradual emergence of new industries, strategic industries, or future industries.
Judging from the three major factors of productivity mentioned above, at present, with the rapid development of the economy and society, the three major factors of productivity, laborers, labor objects, and labor materials have also undergone significant changes. For example, new workers are required to have the ability to innovate in knowledge and specialization, including the ability to make scientific discoveries, technological inventions, and the productization of technical knowledge, as well as the ability to scale the market; with the advancement of scientific and technological innovation, new labor objects such as new materials, new energy, and information and data have emerged; and the integration and upgrading of traditional labor materials and digital and intelligent labor materials, and so on.
Against the background of qualitative changes in the three major elements of the productive forces, the productive forces themselves will naturally leap to a new qualitative stage. These intrinsic properties also determine that the new quality productivity has the external characteristics of high innovation, high virtuality, high liquidity, strong permeability, high synergy, and high value.
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On the whole, the new quality productivity is driven by high-tech innovation and connotative development, and is a new form of social productivity oriented to the world's frontier of science and technology, original and subversive innovation, facing the main battlefield of the economy, facing the needs of national development, and facing the people's better life.
In the author's view, the proposal and interpretation of the concept of "new quality productive forces" is an important innovation in the Marxist theory of productive forces, and it is China's initiative under the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. It will provide important guidance for China to integrate scientific and technological innovation resources, lead the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries, enhance new development momentum, and shape new advantages for high-quality development.
About the Author:
Zhang Zhanbin is a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Director of the Center for Chinese Modernization Research of the Party School of the Central Committee (National Academy of Administration), first-class professor of national philosophy and social sciences, and doctoral supervisor. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Party School of the CPC Central Committee and a postdoctoral fellow in economics at the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University He used to be the director of the Economics Department of the National Academy of Administration, the director of the New Urbanization Research Center, and the dean of the School of Marxism of the Central Party School (National Academy of Administration). He is also a member of the Marxist Theory Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, a member of the Marxist Discipline Expert Group of the National Textbook Committee, and an expert of the Economics Evaluation Group of the National Social Science Fund. He was selected as one of the "four batches" of social science theoretical talents and a leading talent of the National Ten Thousand Talents Program.
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