Empowering the Construction of the Chinese Nation Community with New Quality Productive Forces

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the Ninth Collective Study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee that forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation and promoting high-quality development of the Party's work on ethnic affairs in the New Era are common tasks for the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups across the country. The goal of advancing the construction of the Chinese nation community in the New Era is to conform to the requirements of the times, promote unity and progress in ethnic regions through economic, social, and ecological construction, and thereby forge a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. "New quality productive forces" are "advanced productive forces characterized by innovation playing a leading role, breaking away from traditional economic growth modes and paths of productive forces development, featuring high technology, high efficiency, and high quality, and conforming to the new development philosophy" [1]1 The "new development philosophy" refers to the concept of innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development.. Compared with traditional productive forces driven by factor input, new quality productive forces are driven by scientific and technological innovation, rely on knowledge-based, skilled, and innovative workers, utilize high-precision labor means to transform diverse labor objects, and create new technologies, new economies, and new business forms that meet the requirements of Chinese-path modernization construction. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the Symposium on Promoting the Development of the Western Region in the New Era [2]2 The Symposium on Promoting the Development of the Western Region in the New Era is a meeting convened by the CPC Central Committee to discuss strategies for developing China's western regions. that it is necessary to "develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions, explore the development of modern manufacturing and strategic emerging industries, plan and build future industries, and form new momentum for regional development." It can be seen that empowering the construction of the Chinese nation community with new quality productive forces can not only promote high-quality development in ethnic regions but also deepen cultural and psychological identification in ethnic regions, providing material guarantees and cultural support for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.

习近平总书记在中共中央政治局第九次集体学习时强调，铸牢中华民族共同体意识、推进新时代党的民族工作高质量发展，是全党全国各族人民的共同任务。新时代推进中华民族共同体建设的目标，就是要顺应时代发展要求，通过经济、社会、生态等方面的建设促进民族地区团结进步，以此铸牢中华民族共同体意识。“新质生产力”是“创新起主导作用，摆脱传统经济增长方式、生产力发展路径，具有高科技、高效能、高质量特征，符合新发展理念的先进生产力质态”。同以要素驱动为核心的传统生产力相比，新质生产力以科技创新驱动为核心，依托知识型、技能型、创新型劳动者，借助高精尖的劳动资料，改造多样态的劳动对象，打造符合中国式现代化建设要求的新技术、新经济、新业态。习近平总书记在新时代推动西部大开发座谈会上强调，要“因地制宜发展新质生产力，探索发展现代制造业和战略性新兴产业，布局建设未来产业，形成地区发展新动能”。可见，以新质生产力赋能中华民族共同体建设，不仅能够推动民族地区高质量发展，更能深化民族地区的文化认同与心理认同，为铸牢中华民族共同体意识提供物质保障与文化支撑。

Empowering economic construction in ethnic regions with new quality productive forces

以新质生产力赋能民族地区经济建设

Building a shared-prosperity and shared-wealth economic community is the foundation and prerequisite for constructing the Chinese nation community. The rich natural resources, diverse ethnic cultures, and unique locational advantages of ethnic regions provide a good foundation for the development of new quality productive forces. Through the transformation of the digital economy, green and low-carbon development, and upgrading of special industries, new quality productive forces can effectively promote the transformation of economic development modes in ethnic regions and inject new momentum into high-quality economic development. Currently, there are still many challenges in the economic construction of ethnic regions, such as weak foundations for scientific and technological innovation, arduous tasks of industrial structure transformation and upgrading, imperfect talent support systems, and unbalanced and insufficient regional development. It is necessary to rely on new quality productive forces to stimulate the vitality of economic development in ethnic regions.

建设共富共享的经济共同体是中华民族共同体建设的基础与前提。民族地区丰富的自然资源、多元的民族文化以及独特的区位优势，为新质生产力发展提供了良好基础。新质生产力通过数字经济转型、绿色低碳发展、特色产业升级等方式，能够有效推动民族地区经济发展方式转变，为经济高质量发展注入新动能。当前，民族地区经济建设仍面临诸多挑战，如科技创新基础薄弱，产业结构转型升级任务艰巨，人才支撑体系不完善，区域发展不平衡不充分等，需借助新质生产力激发民族地区经济发展活力。

First, build an innovation system with ethnic characteristics. It is necessary to base efforts on the resource endowments and industrial foundations of ethnic regions, strengthen the construction of innovation platforms, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industries with ethnic characteristics, and cultivate an innovation system with ethnic characteristics. Second, promote the transformation and upgrading of industries with ethnic characteristics. It is necessary to deeply explore ethnic cultural characteristics and regional advantages, promote the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional ethnic handicraft industries, characteristic agriculture and animal husbandry, and eco-tourism, cultivate and develop strategic emerging industries, and build a modern industrial system with ethnic characteristics. Third, improve the talent development system in ethnic regions. It is necessary to innovate talent introduction mechanisms, strengthen the cultivation of local talent, establish and improve talent service systems, and provide intelligent talent guarantees for the development of new quality productive forces. Finally, improve the regional coordinated development mechanism. It is necessary to strengthen counterpart assistance [3]3 Counterpart assistance is a policy whereby developed regions in the east provide targeted support to less developed regions in the west. between ethnic regions and developed regions, deepen industrial transfer and collaboration, promote the orderly flow of factors, and promote the better integration of ethnic regions into the new development pattern [4]4 The "new development pattern" refers to the dual-circulation strategy that focuses on domestic circulation while promoting domestic and international circulations mutually reinforcing each other.. The economic construction of ethnic regions empowered by new quality productive forces will present a new situation of innovation-driven, characteristic development, and coordinated linkage. On the one hand, through scientific and technological innovation to empower the upgrading of traditional industries and cultivate the growth of emerging industries, continuously enhance the endogenous driving force of economic development in ethnic regions; on the other hand, through the development of characteristic industries to drive employment and income growth, promote exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups, and promote a good situation where all ethnic groups work together and prosper together. This not only contributes to the high-quality economic development of ethnic regions but also provides a solid material foundation and practical platform for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.

首先，构建具有民族特色的创新体系。要立足民族地区资源禀赋和产业基础，加强创新平台建设，促进科技创新与民族特色产业深度融合，培育具有民族特色的创新体系。其次，推动民族特色产业转型升级。要深入挖掘民族文化特色和地域优势，推动传统民族手工业、特色农牧业、生态旅游业等产业数字化、智能化改造，培育发展战略性新兴产业，打造具有民族特色的现代产业体系。再次，完善民族地区人才发展体系。要创新人才引进机制，加强本土人才培养，建立健全人才服务体系，为新质生产力发展提供智能化人才保障。最后，健全区域协调发展机制。要加强民族地区与发达地区的对口帮扶，深化产业转移协作，促进要素有序流动，推动民族地区更好融入新发展格局。在新质生产力赋能下的民族地区经济建设，将呈现出创新驱动、特色发展、协同联动的新态势。一方面，通过科技创新赋能传统产业升级，培育新兴产业成长，不断增强民族地区经济发展的内生动力；另一方面，通过特色产业发展带动就业增收，促进各民族交往交流交融，推动形成各民族共同团结奋斗、共同繁荣发展的良好局面。这不仅有助于民族地区经济高质量发展，更能为铸牢中华民族共同体意识提供坚实的物质基础和实践平台。

Empowering social construction in ethnic regions with new quality productive forces

以新质生产力赋能民族地区社会建设

Building an inter-embedded and co-integrated social community is the focus and key to constructing the Chinese nation community. As the cornerstone of Chinese-path modernization development, new quality productive forces have an important empowering role in promoting the modernization of the social governance system and governance capacity in ethnic regions. Through digital governance, smart services, and targeted assistance, new quality productive forces can effectively improve the level of public services in ethnic regions, optimize social governance methods, promote the transformation of social structure in ethnic regions, enhance the sense of gain, happiness, and security [5]5 "Sense of gain, happiness, and security" is a standard political phrase used to describe people's subjective well-being in relation to policy outcomes. of people of all ethnic groups, and provide a solid social foundation for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. Currently, there are still many challenges in the social construction of ethnic regions, such as the lagging digital transformation of social governance, unbalanced supply of social services, insufficient innovation capacity in social governance, and arduous tasks of inheriting and innovating ethnic cultures. It is necessary to rely on new quality productive forces to promote the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity in ethnic regions.

建设互嵌共融的社会共同体是中华民族共同体建设的重点与关键。新质生产力作为中国式现代化发展的基石，对推动民族地区社会治理体系和治理能力现代化具有重要赋能作用。新质生产力通过数字化治理、智慧化服务、精准化帮扶等方式，能够有效提升民族地区公共服务水平，优化社会治理方式，促进民族地区社会结构转型，增强各民族群众的获得感、幸福感和安全感，为铸牢中华民族共同体意识提供坚实的社会基础。当前，民族地区社会建设仍面临诸多挑战，如社会治理数字化转型滞后，社会服务供给不均衡，社会治理创新能力不足，民族文化传承创新任务艰巨等，需借助新质生产力促进民族地区治理体系与治理能力现代化。

First, promote the digital transformation of social governance. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of information infrastructure in ethnic regions, enhance digital governance capabilities, build a smart social governance system, and promote innovation in governance methods. Second, optimize the supply of public services. It is necessary to promote the digital and intelligent upgrading of public services such as education, healthcare, and culture, innovate service models, improve service quality, and achieve a leap in the level of basic public services. Third, innovate social governance models. It is necessary to use new technological means such as big data and artificial intelligence to enhance the precision and intelligence of social governance, and improve the social governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance, and shared benefits. Finally, promote the innovative development of ethnic culture. It is necessary to strengthen the digital protection and inheritance of ethnic culture, promote the creative transformation and innovative development [6]6 "Creative transformation and innovative development" is a formulaic expression for updating traditional culture to meet contemporary needs. of fine traditional Chinese culture, and build a new pattern of cultural dissemination with ethnic characteristics. The social development of ethnic regions empowered by new quality productive forces will present new features of intelligence, balance, and synergy. In the field of social governance, empower grassroots governance innovation through digital technology to enhance governance efficiency; in the field of public services, improve service quality through smart means to promote equalization of services; in the field of cultural construction, promote the inheritance and innovation of ethnic culture through new technologies to enhance cultural identity. This not only helps promote the modernization of social governance capacity in ethnic regions but also provides a good social environment and cultural atmosphere for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.

首先，推进社会治理数字化转型。要加快民族地区信息化基础设施建设，提升数字治理能力，构建智慧化社会治理体系，促进治理方式创新。其次，优化公共服务供给。要推动教育、医疗、文化等公共服务数字化、智能化升级，创新服务模式，提升服务质量，实现基本公共服务水平跃升。再次，创新社会治理模式。要运用大数据、人工智能等新技术手段，提升社会治理精准化、智能化水平，健全共建共治共享的社会治理格局。最后，推动民族文化创新发展。要加强民族文化数字化保护和传承，促进中华优秀传统文化创造性转化和创新性发展，打造具有民族特色的文化传播新格局。新质生产力赋能下的民族地区社会发展，将呈现出智慧化、均衡化、协同化的新特征。在社会治理领域，通过数字技术赋能基层治理创新，提升治理效能；在公共服务领域，通过智慧化手段提升服务质量，促进服务均等化；在文化建设领域，通过新技术促进民族文化传承创新，增强文化认同。这不仅有助于推动民族地区社会治理能力现代化，更能为铸牢中华民族共同体意识提供良好的社会环境和文化氛围。

Empowering ecological construction in ethnic regions with new quality productive forces

以新质生产力赋能民族地区生态建设

Building an ecological community where humans and nature coexist harmoniously is the direction and guarantee for constructing the Chinese nation community. Ethnic regions are important ecological barriers and areas rich in ecological resources in China. New quality productive forces play an important empowering role in promoting ecological civilization construction in ethnic regions. Through green technological innovation, smart environmental governance, and cultivation of ecological industries, new quality productive forces can effectively improve the capacity for ecological environment governance in ethnic regions, achieve a positive interaction between ecological protection and economic development, and provide strong support for building a solid ecological security barrier for the Chinese nation community. The rich natural resource endowments and unique ecosystems of ethnic regions provide broad space for new quality productive forces to lead the green transformation of development. However, there are still many challenges in the ecological construction of ethnic regions, such as insufficient scientific and technological support for ecological governance, inadequate development of ecological industries, and imperfect regional ecological governance coordination mechanisms. It is necessary to rely on new quality productive forces to comprehensively improve the capacity for ecological environment governance.

建设人与自然和谐共生的生态共同体是中华民族共同体建设的方向与保障。民族地区是我国重要的生态屏障和生态资源富集区，新质生产力在推动民族地区生态文明建设中具有重要的赋能作用。新质生产力通过绿色科技创新、智慧环境治理、生态产业培育等方式，能够有效提升民族地区生态环境治理能力，实现生态保护和经济发展的良性互动，为筑牢中华民族共同体的生态安全屏障提供有力支撑。民族地区丰富的自然资源禀赋和独特的生态系统，为新质生产力引领绿色发展转型提供了广阔空间。然而，民族地区生态建设仍面临诸多挑战，如生态治理科技支撑不足，生态产业发展不充分，区域生态治理协同机制不完善等，需借助新质生产力全面提升生态环境治理能力。

First, strengthen scientific and technological support for ecological governance. It is necessary to increase investment in scientific and technological innovation in the field of ecological environment, develop key technologies such as smart monitoring and ecological restoration, and build a smart ecological environment supervision system. Second, cultivate and expand ecological industries. It is necessary to base efforts on the ecological resource advantages of ethnic regions, develop green industries such as ecological agriculture and animal husbandry, eco-tourism, and biomedicine, and realize the value transformation of ecological products. Third, innovate ecological governance models. It is necessary to use new technological means such as big data and the Internet of Things to enhance the precision and scientific level of ecological governance, and build a multi-stakeholder governance system for ecology. Finally, improve regional ecological coordination mechanisms. It is necessary to improve the ecological compensation mechanism [7]7 The ecological compensation mechanism is a system that provides payments or other forms of compensation for ecological conservation efforts., deepen cross-regional ecological governance cooperation, and build a regional ecological community of shared interests. The ecological construction of ethnic regions empowered by new quality productive forces will present a new pattern of technology leadership, industrial support, and co-construction and shared benefits. In the field of ecological governance, enhance governance capacity through technological innovation to achieve precise and scientific governance; in the field of industrial development, promote industrial upgrading through green technology innovation to achieve win-win ecological and economic benefits; in the field of regional cooperation, promote regional coordination through digital means to create good conditions for all ethnic groups to jointly protect their beautiful homeland. This not only helps to improve the systemic nature and synergy of ecological construction in ethnic regions but also provides reliable ecological guarantees and civilizational consensus for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.

首先，强化生态治理科技支撑。要加大生态环境领域科技创新投入力度，发展智能监测、生态修复等关键技术，构建智慧化生态环境监管体系。其次，培育壮大生态产业。要立足民族地区生态资源优势，发展生态农牧、生态旅游、生物医药等绿色产业，实现生态产品的价值转化。再次，创新生态治理模式。要运用大数据、物联网等新技术手段，提升生态治理精准化、科学化水平，构建多元共治的生态治理体系。最后，完善区域生态协同机制。要健全生态补偿机制，深化跨区域生态治理合作，构建区域生态利益共同体。在新质生产力赋能下的民族地区生态建设，将呈现出科技引领、产业支撑、共建共享的新格局。在生态治理领域，通过科技创新提升治理能力，实现精准治理、科学治理；在产业发展领域，通过绿色技术创新推动产业升级，实现生态效益与经济效益双赢；在区域协作领域，通过数字化手段促进区域协同，为各民族共同守护美丽家园创造良好条件。这不仅有助于提升民族地区生态建设的系统性和协同性，更能为铸牢中华民族共同体意识提供可靠的生态保障和文明共识。

(The author is a researcher at the Research Base for Forging a Strong Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

（作者系华中科技大学铸牢中华民族共同体意识研究基地研究员）

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