Adhere to a Systemic Approach to Develop New Quality Productive Forces

Developing new quality productive forces is the intrinsic requirement and key focus for promoting high-quality development. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC proposed "improving the systems and mechanisms for developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions" and made systematic arrangements for developing new quality productive forces. Developing new quality productive forces is a systemic project, involving all areas of economic and social development, where a move in one part affects the whole situation. It is necessary to further deepen reform comprehensively, adhere to a systemic approach, improve the systems and mechanisms for developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions, vigorously promote scientific and technological innovation, facilitate the concentration of all types of advanced production factors towards developing new quality productive forces, and coordinate the upgrading of traditional industries, the expansion of emerging industries, and the cultivation of future industries, providing strong impetus for the development of new quality productive forces.

发展新质生产力是推动高质量发展的内在要求和重要着力点。党的二十届三中全会提出“健全因地制宜发展新质生产力体制机制”，并对发展新质生产力进行了系统部署。发展新质生产力是一项系统性工程，涉及经济社会发展各领域，牵一发而动全身，必须进一步全面深化改革，坚持系统观念，健全因地制宜发展新质生产力的体制机制，大力推动科技创新，促进各类先进生产要素向发展新质生产力集聚，统筹推进传统产业升级、新兴产业壮大、未来产业培育，为新质生产力发展提供强大动力。

New quality productive forces are driven by revolutionary technological breakthroughs, innovative allocation of production factors, and deep industrial transformation and upgrading. Their basic connotation is the leap in the quality of laborers, means of labor, objects of labor, and their optimized combination. They are characterized by high technology, high efficiency, and high quality, representing the development direction of advanced productive forces. From the perspective of systems theory, new quality productive forces constitute a complex system composed of interconnected and interacting productive forces elements, structures, and functions. Among them, the elements consist of new-type laborers, new-type objects of labor, new-type tools of labor, new-type infrastructure, etc.; structurally, they are manifested in a modernized industrial system formed by the dominant development of emerging industries and future industries; functionally, they highlight adherence to the new development philosophy, significantly improving total factor productivity, and better meeting the people's needs for a better life. Innovation is the intrinsic requirement for developing new quality productive forces, mainly including two aspects. On the one hand, it emphasizes scientific and technological innovation, that is, through breakthroughs in key and disruptive technologies, seizing new tracks in strategic emerging industries and future industries, and promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. On the other hand, the new industries, new business forms, and new models generated by technological innovation will inevitably promote innovation at the management and institutional levels, thereby providing a favorable environment for continuously enhancing innovation capabilities. New quality productive forces are not a partial optimization or simple enhancement of traditional productive forces, but a qualitative leap achieved through innovation-triggered quantitative change; they are productive forces of higher quality, higher efficiency, and greater advancement.

新质生产力由技术革命性突破、生产要素创新性配置、产业深度转型升级而催生，以劳动者、劳动资料、劳动对象及其优化组合的跃升为基本内涵，以高技术、高效能、高质量为特征，代表着先进生产力的发展方向。从系统论角度看，新质生产力是由相互联系、相互作用的生产力要素、结构、功能构成的复杂系统。其中，要素由新型劳动者、新型劳动对象、新型劳动工具、新型基础设施等构成；在结构承载上表现为由新兴产业、未来产业等主导发展形成的现代化产业体系；在功能上则凸显为坚持新发展理念，大幅提升全要素生产率，更好满足人民美好生活需要。创新是发展新质生产力的内在要求，主要包括两方面内容，一方面强调科学技术创新，即通过关键性、颠覆性技术的突破，抢占战略性新兴产业和未来产业新赛道，推动传统产业转型升级；另一方面技术创新产生的新产业、新业态、新模式，必然促进管理和制度等层面的创新，进而为持续增强创新能力提供有利环境。新质生产力不是传统生产力的局部优化与简单提升，而是创新激发的量变实现了质的跃迁，是更高质量、更高效率、更先进的生产力。

New quality productive forces constitute an organic whole, requiring us to understand and grasp them with a systemic approach and apply correct scientific methods to promote their development. On the one hand, adhere to basing actions on reality and adapting to local conditions. China has a vast territory, and different regions, due to varying geographical locations, resource endowments, historical conditions, population distributions, etc., exhibit different regional divisions of labor and industrial characteristics, facing different directions, priorities, and difficulties in development. There is no uniform template or standard answer for developing new quality productive forces; it is necessary to base actions on reality, make precise efforts, and implement policies scientifically. In practice, we must carefully take stock of the existing foundations of various regions and industries, make specific layouts for specific regions, conduct specific analyses for specific industries, adapt to local conditions, provide categorized guidance, and construct development paths for different spaces, different industries, and different elements. On the other hand, adhere to holistic advancement with breakthroughs in key areas. New quality productive forces represent a "qualitatively changed" state of productive forces relative to traditional productive forces. We must make overall plans, establish the new before abolishing the old, proceed steadily and surely, and use breakthroughs in key areas to drive overall progress. Adhere to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, make good use of resource endowment conditions, and take into account both new tracks and traditional industrial fields. Pay attention not only to the growth and expansion of strategic emerging industries and future industries but also actively and reasonably empower traditional industries with new technologies for intelligent, green, and integrated transformation and upgrading, enabling the two to promote and complement each other, and continuously develop new quality productive forces in the process of building a modernized industrial system.

新质生产力是一个有机整体，需要我们用系统观念加以理解和把握，运用正确的科学方法推动新质生产力发展。一方面，坚持立足实际、因地制宜。我国幅员辽阔，各地区由于不同地理位置、资源禀赋、历史条件、人口分布等，呈现出不同的区域分工和产业特点，在发展中所面临的方向、重点、难点不尽相同。发展新质生产力，没有统一模板、标准答案，必须立足实际、精准发力、科学施策，在实践中要认真盘点好各地区、各产业的既有基础，具体地区具体布局，具体产业具体分析，因地制宜、分类指导，构建不同空间、不同产业、不同要素的发展路径。另一方面，坚持整体推进、重点突破。新质生产力是相对于传统生产力发生了“质变”的生产力质态，要统筹考虑、先立后破、稳扎稳打，以重点突破带动整体推进。坚持守正创新，用好资源禀赋条件，兼顾新赛道和传统产业领域，既关注战略性新兴产业和未来产业的发展壮大，又积极合理地以新技术赋能传统产业向智能化、绿色化、融合化转型升级，使二者相互促进、相得益彰，在建设现代化产业体系过程中不断发展新质生产力。

The development of new quality productive forces is inseparable from the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain. Only by promoting systematic and holistic advancement, focusing on the industrial foundation, smoothing the virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talent, and enabling the coordination of elements, institutions, and environments, can we better cultivate and develop new quality productive forces.

新质生产力的发展离不开创新链、产业链、资金链、人才链的深度融合。只有系统性、整体性推进，聚焦产业基础，畅通教育、科技、人才的良性循环，使要素、制度、环境等相互协同，才能更好培育和发展新质生产力。

First, increase investment in basic research and strengthen technological support. Scientific and technological innovation is the prerequisite for developing new quality productive forces. Basic research is the source of the entire scientific system and plays a significant role in providing foundational support and forward-looking guidance for the development of new quality productive forces. The development of basic research requires long-term accumulation; it is necessary to persistently increase investment, continuously optimize the systemic layout and disciplinary construction of basic research, making it an inexhaustible source of wisdom for original and disruptive innovation. We must solve key technological problems from the source and the underlying level, strengthen independent original innovation and disruptive technological innovation, enhance organized scientific research, promote strategy-oriented systematic basic research, frontier-oriented exploratory basic research, and market-oriented applied basic research, and promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation.

一是加大基础研究投入，强化技术支撑。科技创新是发展新质生产力的前提。基础研究是整个科学体系的源头，具有为新质生产力发展提供基础支撑和前瞻引领的重大作用。基础研究的发展需要长期积累，必须持之以恒加大投入，不断优化基础研究的系统布局和学科建设，使之成为原创性、颠覆性创新不竭的智慧源泉。要从源头和底层解决关键技术问题，强化自主原始创新和颠覆性技术创新，加强有组织科研，推进战略导向的体系化基础研究、前沿导向的探索性基础研究、市场导向的应用性基础研究，推动科技创新和产业创新深度融合。

Second, implement the strategy of invigorating China through human resource development and consolidate the talent foundation. Talent is the most active and positive factor in scientific and technological innovation activities and is an important resource for developing new quality productive forces. Focus on the cultivation of talent quality and ability, coordinate and optimize the talent cultivation system covering multiple directions and links such as basic science, applied science, engineering technology, and industrial fields, and enhance the quality and capability of high-quality talent supply as a whole. Further break down barriers to talent mobility between urban and rural areas, regions, and industries, improve the mechanism for orderly talent flow, and promote the rational regional distribution of talent. Deepen the reform of the systems and mechanisms for talent development, establish a talent evaluation system oriented by innovation capability, quality, effectiveness, and contribution, create a favorable environment for talent development, and fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of talent.

二是实施人才强国战略，夯实人才基础。人才是科技创新活动中最活跃、最积极的因素，是发展新质生产力的重要资源。聚焦人才素质与能力培养，统筹优化基础科学、应用科学、工程技术、产业领域等多方向、多环节的人才培养体系，从整体上提升高素质人才供给的质量和能力。进一步打破城乡、区域、行业间人才流动的壁垒，完善人才有序流动机制，促进人才区域合理布局。深化人才发展体制机制改革，建立以创新能力、质量、实效、贡献为导向的人才评价体系，营造良好的人才发展环境，充分激发人才的积极性、主动性、创造性。

Third, build a modernized industrial system and cultivate industrial carriers. Industry is the foundation of the economy and the specific manifestation of changes in productive forces. The continuous iterative upgrading of leading industries and pillar industries is an important support for the leap in productive forces. We must lay out the industrial chain around the development of new quality productive forces, enhance the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain, and ensure that the industrial system is self-controllable, safe, and reliable. On the one hand, strengthen top-level design, further expand strategic emerging industries, actively plan and develop future industries, use new energy, new materials, new-generation information technology, etc., for deep integration with emerging industries, accelerate disruptive technological innovation breakthroughs in brain-like intelligence, quantum information, gene technology, brain-computer interfaces, etc., and grasp the initiative in the development of future industries. On the other hand, make good use of digital technology, vigorously promote the intelligent, green, and integrated development of traditional industries, achieve deep integration of digital technology with the real economy, accelerate the popularization and application of technologies for energy conservation, pollution reduction, and carbon reduction, and promote the green and low-carbon transformation of traditional industries. In addition, improve the system for enhancing the resilience and security level of the industrial chain and supply chain, promptly build a self-controllable industrial chain and supply chain, and provide strong support for accelerating new industrialization and building a modernized industrial system.

三是建设现代化产业体系，培育产业载体。产业是经济之本，是生产力变革的具体表现形式。主导产业和支柱产业持续迭代升级是生产力跃迁的重要支撑。要围绕发展新质生产力布局产业链，提升产业链供应链韧性和安全水平，保证产业体系自主可控、安全可靠。一方面，加强顶层设计，进一步壮大战略性新兴产业，积极谋划发展未来产业，利用新能源、新材料、新一代信息技术等与新兴产业进行深度融合，加快类脑智能、量子信息、基因技术、脑机接口等颠覆性技术创新突破，把握未来产业发展主动权；另一方面，用好数字技术，大力推进传统产业智能化、绿色化、融合化发展，实现数字技术与实体经济深度融合，加快节能减污降碳技术的普及应用，推动传统产业绿色低碳转型。此外，健全提升产业链供应链韧性和安全水平制度，抓紧打造自主可控的产业链供应链，为加快推进新型工业化、构建现代化产业体系提供强大支撑。

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