The Theory of New Quality Productive Forces Is an Original Theory That China Contributes to the World

General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that productive forces are the fundamental driving force of human social development and also the ultimate cause of all social change and political transformation. The theory of productive forces, centered on the development of productive forces, is the main thread of the development of philosophy and social sciences and the core content of the knowledge system at different historical stages of human social development. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping, based on the vivid practice of Chinese-path modernization, has summarized and proposed and deeply elaborated the theory of new quality productive forces. The theory of new quality productive forces has realized the adaptation of the Marxist theory of productive forces to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, is an important theoretical cornerstone for constructing philosophy and social sciences with Chinese characteristics, and is an original theory that China contributes to the modernization development of the world.

习近平总书记指出，生产力是人类社会发展的根本动力，也是一切社会变迁和政治变革的终极原因。围绕生产力发展的生产力理论是哲学社会科学发展的脉络主线，是人类社会发展不同历史阶段知识体系中的核心内容。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记基于中国式现代化的生动实践，概括提出并深入阐述新质生产力理论。新质生产力理论实现了马克思主义生产力理论的中国化时代化，是构建中国特色哲学社会科学的重要理论基石，是中国贡献世界现代化发展的原创性理论。

Realizing the Adaptation of the Marxist Theory of Productive Forces to the Chinese Context and the Needs of the Times

实现马克思主义生产力理论的中国化时代化

The theory of new quality productive forces inherits and develops the Marxist theory of productive forces. It is the product of the combination of the Marxist theory of productive forces with the actual development of China's productive forces in the New Era, realizing the adaptation of the Marxist theory of productive forces to the Chinese context and the needs of the times.

新质生产力理论继承和发展了马克思主义生产力理论，是马克思主义生产力理论同新时代我国生产力发展实际相结合的产物，实现了马克思主义生产力理论的中国化时代化。

The principal contradiction in society evolves dynamically, requiring the productive forces of the corresponding era to perform their functions. If we take the function of productive forces as a coordinate system, the operational track of productive forces can be roughly divided into survival type, growth type, quality type, and so on. At present, the principal contradiction in Chinese society has been transformed into the contradiction between the people's ever-growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. The contradictions and problems in development are concentrated in the quality of development. As a form of advanced productive forces, new quality productive forces represent a sublimation and leap from the earlier functions of productive forces such as the survival type, growth type, and quality type, returning to the people-centered value orientation of economic development. Therefore, as a value orientation pursuing high-quality development and better meeting the people's needs for a better life, the theory of new quality productive forces is an innovative development of the Marxist theory of productive forces.

社会主要矛盾是动态演化的，需要相应时代的生产力发挥其功能，若以生产力功能为坐标系，生产力运行轨道大致可分为生存型、增长型、质量型等。当前，我国社会主要矛盾已经转化为人民日益增长的美好生活需要和不平衡不充分的发展之间的矛盾，发展中的矛盾和问题集中体现在发展质量上。作为先进生产力质态，新质生产力是对前期生存型、增长型、质量型等生产力功能的升华与跃迁，回归到经济发展的人本价值导向。因此，作为追求实现高质量发展、更好满足人民美好生活需要价值取向的新质生产力理论，是对马克思主义生产力理论的创新发展。

The theory of new quality productive forces inherits the Marxist view of development, emphasizing the new development philosophy as a systematic guide. The new development philosophy, organically composed of innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development, deepens the theoretical understanding of the laws of socialist development, enriches and develops the theoretical connotation of the Marxist view of development, serves as the systematic guide for the theory of new quality productive forces, and answers a series of theoretical and practical questions concerning the purpose, driving force, mode, and path of developing new quality productive forces. Specifically, developing new quality productive forces requires taking the innovative development philosophy as a guide to achieve higher-quality and safer development; taking the coordinated development philosophy as a guide to coordinate well the relationships between "creative destruction" and "creative transformation," between new quality productive forces and existing productive forces, between emerging industries and existing industries, etc., to achieve healthier development; taking the green development philosophy as a guide to achieve more sustainable development; taking the open development philosophy as a guide to achieve more prosperous development; and taking the shared development philosophy as a guide to achieve fairer development. Therefore, new quality productive forces formed and developed under the systematic guidance of the new development philosophy will provide strong impetus and powerful support for high-quality development.

新质生产力理论继承马克思主义发展观，强调以新发展理念为系统指南。由创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享发展有机构成的新发展理念，深化了关于社会主义发展规律的理论认识、丰富发展了马克思主义发展观的理论内涵，是新质生产力理论的系统指南，回答了关于新质生产力发展的目的、动力、方式、路径等一系列理论和实践问题。具体而言，发展新质生产力，需以创新发展理念为指引，实现更高质量更为安全的发展；需以协调发展理念为指引，统筹协调好“创造性破坏”与“创造性转型”、新质生产力与现有生产力、新兴产业与现有产业等关系，实现更为健康的发展；需以绿色发展理念为指引，实现更可持续的发展；需以开放发展理念为指引，实现更加繁荣的发展；需以共享发展理念为指引，实现更加公平的发展。因此，在新发展理念系统指引下形成和发展的新质生产力，将为高质量发展提供强劲推动力和强大支撑力。

The theory of new quality productive forces inherits the Marxist view of values, serving and supporting the construction of Chinese-path modernization. To promote and realize Chinese-path modernization, it is necessary for new quality productive forces to provide a solid material foundation, strong scientific and technological support, and powerful industrial guarantees. On the one hand, realizing the modernization of a huge population, the common prosperity of all the people, and the coordination of material civilization and cultural-ethical progress depends on new quality productive forces, which take the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation as an inherent requirement, empowering the construction of a modern industrial system. This not only helps provide high-quality employment opportunities and development space for a large-scale population but also provides comprehensive conditions and guarantees for the modernization development of a large-scale population. On the other hand, realizing the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature depends on the promotion and application of disruptive technologies, cutting-edge generic technologies, key core technologies, etc., in economic and social development. As an advanced form of productive forces in large-scale socialized production in the era of digital intelligence, new quality productive forces require a peaceful development environment to ensure the free, orderly, and smooth flow of their production factors; at the same time, the development of new quality productive forces also helps promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. Therefore, new quality productive forces are an important force for comprehensively advancing Chinese-path modernization.

新质生产力理论继承马克思主义价值观，服务和支撑中国式现代化建设。推动实现中国式现代化，需要新质生产力提供坚实的物质基础、强大的科技支撑和有力的产业保障。一方面，实现人口规模巨大的现代化、全体人民共同富裕的现代化、物质文明和精神文明相协调的现代化，有赖于以科技创新和产业创新深度融合为内在要求的新质生产力赋能现代化产业体系建设，这既有助于为大规模人口提供高质量的就业机会和发展空间，也可为大规模人口现代化发展提供全方位的条件保障。另一方面，实现人与自然和谐共生的现代化，有赖于颠覆性技术、前沿共性技术、关键核心技术等在经济社会发展中的推广应用。新质生产力作为数智时代社会化大生产的先进生产力质态，需要和平发展环境保障其生产要素自由有序顺畅流动；同时，新质生产力的发展也有助于促进人类命运共同体的构建。因此，新质生产力是全面推进中国式现代化的重要力量。

Providing a Completely New Theoretical Choice for World Modernization Development

为世界现代化发展提供全新理论选择

The theory of new quality productive forces is an original theory based on the sublation of the theoretical foundation of Western economics, providing an economic knowledge system based on the practice of Chinese-path modernization for countries around the world, especially developing countries, to advance modernization.

新质生产力理论是在扬弃西方经济学理论基础上的原创性理论，为世界各国特别是广大发展中国家推进现代化提供了基于中国式现代化实践的经济学知识体系。

The theory of new quality productive forces breaks through the theoretical paradigm of Western economics and is an integrated theoretical innovation that transcends traditional economic growth theory. New quality productive forces break away from traditional economic growth modes and are generated by revolutionary breakthroughs in technology, innovative allocation of production factors, and deep industrial transformation and upgrading. Therefore, the theory of new quality productive forces breaks away from the linear theoretical paradigm advocated by Western economic theory, abandons the old modernization path of Western countries of "pollute first, treat later," and represents a transcendence and innovation over traditional economic growth theory. This stems from the actual development of Chinese-path modernization. China has completed the industrialization process that took Western developed countries several hundred years in just a few decades, creating the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability rarely seen in the world. This requires that the theory of new quality productive forces, which originates from practice and is used to guide practice, must inevitably be an innovative theory with strong tension.

新质生产力理论突破了西方经济学理论范式，是超越传统经济增长理论的集成式理论创新。新质生产力摆脱了传统经济增长方式，是由技术革命性突破、生产要素创新性配置、产业深度转型升级而催生。因此，新质生产力理论摆脱了西方经济学理论所倡导的线性理论范式，摒弃了西方国家“先污染后治理”的现代化老路，是对传统经济增长理论的超越和创新，这根源于中国式现代化发展实际。我国用几十年时间走完了西方发达国家几百年走过的工业化历程，创造了世所罕见的经济快速发展和社会长期稳定两大奇迹，这就要求源于实践并用于指导实践的新质生产力理论必然是具有较强张力的创新性理论。

The theory of new quality productive forces sublates the mainstream theory of Western economics regarding the binary opposition between the market and the government, and is an innovative theory that adheres to the combination of an effective market and a competent government. The prominent feature of new quality productive forces is innovation, which includes innovation at the level of technology and business models, as well as innovation at the level of management and institutions. This indicates that the formation and development of new quality productive forces not only focus on the technological innovation emphasized by Western economic theory but also pay attention to institutional innovation that is compatible with technological innovation, emphasizing the combination of an effective market and a competent government, making the market more effective and the government more competent. This breaks away from the limitations of Western economic theory that separates or even opposes technology and institutions, the market and the government. Developing a market economy under socialist conditions, giving play to both the advantages of the market economy and the superiority of the socialist system, is a great pioneering undertaking of the Communist Party of China. The theory of new quality productive forces is a concentrated expression of adhering to the combination of an effective market and a competent government.

新质生产力理论扬弃了西方经济学关于市场与政府二元对立的主流理论，是坚持有效市场和有为政府相结合的创新理论。新质生产力的显著特点是创新，既包括技术和业态模式层面的创新，也包括管理和制度层面的创新。这表明新质生产力的形成发展，不仅聚焦于西方经济学理论所注重的技术创新，同时也注重与技术创新相适应的制度创新，强调有效市场和有为政府相结合，让市场更有效、让政府更有为，这就摆脱了技术与制度、市场与政府分割乃至对立的西方经济学理论局限。在社会主义条件下发展市场经济，既发挥市场经济优势又发挥社会主义制度优越性，是中国共产党的一个伟大创举，新质生产力理论则是坚持有效市场和有为政府相结合的集中体现。

The theory of new quality productive forces solves the theoretical dilemma in Western modernization theory that economic development and social stability are difficult to balance. The complex and multiple relationships between economic development and social stability in the process of modernization pose severe challenges for developing countries trying to balance economic development and social stability. The successful advancement and expansion of Chinese-path modernization fundamentally lies in the fact that the Communist Party of China, representing the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people, pursues and realizes "people-centered" high-quality development. New quality productive forces, with high-quality development as their functional orientation and value orientation, under the systematic guidance of the new development philosophy, focus on coordinating investment in things and investment in people from the perspective of the people's overall interests, fundamental interests, and long-term interests, deeply aligning the improvement of the service efficiency of "things" with the development needs of "people," expanding development space while meeting people's livelihood needs, and promoting the mutual reinforcement of high-quality development and a high-quality life. This will provide strong impetus for writing a new chapter in the "two miracles" [n]. Therefore, the theory of new quality productive forces provides theoretical support for developing countries to resolve the contradictions and challenges of economic development and social stability in the process of modernization.

新质生产力理论破解了西方现代化理论有关经济发展与社会稳定难以兼顾的理论困境。现代化进程中经济发展与社会稳定之间的多元复合性关系，给发展中国家兼顾经济发展与社会稳定带来严峻挑战。中国式现代化的成功推进和拓展，其根本在于代表最广大人民根本利益的中国共产党追求实现的是“以人民为中心”的高质量发展。以高质量发展为功能取向和价值导向的新质生产力，在新发展理念系统指引下，注重从人民的整体利益、根本利益、长远利益出发统筹好投资于物和投资于人，使“物”的服务效能提升与“人”的发展需求深度契合，在满足民生需求中拓展发展空间，推动高质量发展与高品质生活相互促进，这将为续写“两大奇迹”新篇章提供强大动力。因此，新质生产力理论为发展中国家在现代化进程中破解经济发展与社会稳定的矛盾挑战提供了理论支撑。

(The author is Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Professor of the Jiangxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences)

（作者系江西省社会科学院党组书记、教授）