Productive forces are a comprehensive manifestation of a specific combination of methods, and the mainland's productive forces have shown a very strong impact after a striking comparison from backward to advanced.
Looking back at the gross national product (GDP) of the whole country in 1952, when the total GDP of the whole country was only 67.9 billion yuan, the average per capita productivity was only 119 yuan, and the total amount of all savings deposits in the country at that time was 860 million yuan, with an average of 1.5 yuan per person.
With the long-term development and unremitting self-improvement of the mainland, a new quality of productive forces has been formed, and the deep integration of technology and intelligence and informatization has brought tremendous impetus, and this new type of productive forces combined with the strength of scientific and technological innovation has brought rapid development to China, and it is a huge contrast between the backward productive forces.
The mainland's technological innovation coupled with the continuous leap of high and new technology in various fields has brought about production capacity and improvement speed, which is an epoch-making change in the history of innovation, so the mainland's productivity performance after the optimal combination has also brought earth-shaking changes.
Driven by the ability to innovate, China's total GDP has increased tremendously, and data from the National Bureau of Statistics in 2023 shows that the mainland's total GDP in the previous year was 18.2 trillion US dollars, if this amount is not enough to make netizens shocked when they hear it, and even feel that this amount is lower than expected, compared to the total GDP of the United States in the same period, which is 26.3 trillion yuan, and the gap is 8.1 trillion US dollars, then there are many factors to measure the strength of a country according to GDP, and in this public data statistics, it may be lower than the actual one.
Some economists said that China's total GDP is actually a relatively low-key figure, and according to its actual strength, it should be higher than this comprehensive measure, because the mainland does not have so much debt, which belongs to a very practical level.
And the United States has a huge foreign debt, and even serious inflation, so even if the GDP of the United States looks high, in the words of netizens, it is an inflated situation.
In recent years, the depreciation of the US dollar has become more and more intense, and the United States has not found a solution to inflation, but has continued to issue US dollars, which has further exacerbated the adverse effects of inflation.
Therefore, many experts even believe that if we compare our strength, the gap between China's comprehensive strength and the United States may not be as great as it seems, and even China's strong strength will be much stronger than the United States and the West speculate, which has also aroused uneasiness and fear in the United States.
For example, the data in 2022 shows that the inflation rate in the United States is 6.8%, which has risen to the highest position in nearly half a century.
In contrast, China's inflation rate is low, the value is 1.5%, this gap is significantly lower than the inflation situation in the United States, and it is also much less than the bubble in the United States, and it also shows that China's economic foundation is very solid and continues to develop steadily.
Some experts in the economic field said that China's advanced productive forces and huge potential in recent years have made the West feel extremely jealous, after all, looking at the development of many fields and industries in China, the speed and efficiency have created the world's first.
Whether it is in industrial processing and manufacturing, aerospace technology, and a variety of industries, China has shown vigorous vitality.
China's annual production capacity in the shipbuilding industry alone is as high as 23 million tons, while the shipbuilding capacity of the United States is more than 200,000 tons, a difference of more than 200 times, China has built three aircraft carriers in ten years, and it has taken more than 30 years to make the Chinese Navy from aging and dilapidated equipment to new high-precision and high-level sophisticated equipment, realizing nearly 300 warships of various types, with a total tonnage of more than 2.4 million tons.
Looking at the mainland's high-speed rail manufacturing industry, from zero foundation 20 years ago to the current construction of an advanced rail transit network, it has achieved the world's largest achievement in total mileage.
Whether it is the construction of trains, the laying of railroad tracks, the production of steel, or the construction of projects, they are all localized, and these are the changes brought about by advanced productive forces.
In fact, from the perspective of numerical comparisons in many fields, China's productivity and GDP have been underestimated by the West, and the West's habitual inflated estimation of the GDP of the United States has led to a huge disparity in the amount of comparison.
Because the statistical methods in the West are different, the data obtained are actually inconsistent.
Comparing the data with the global total, China's GDP will account for about 19.8% of the world in 2022, which is already a few percentage points higher than the 15% of the United States.
The comparison between China's current advanced productive forces and the backward productive forces of the past is really very astonishing.