High quality development is the hard truth of the new era and requires new productivity theories to guide it. Accelerating the development of new quality productive forces is an objective requirement for liberating and developing productive forces in the new era and new journey. It is an inevitable choice to promote the iteration and upgrading of productive forces and achieve modernization.
Higher quality workers are the first element of new productive forces. Human beings are the most active and decisive factor in productivity, and new quality productivity demands higher knowledge and skills from workers. High tech labor materials are the driving force of new productive forces. The strength of the technological attributes of production tools is a significant indicator of distinguishing between new and traditional productive forces.
The integration and application of new generation information technology, advanced manufacturing technology, and new material technology have nurtured a large number of new production tools that are more intelligent, efficient, lower carbon, and safer. This has further liberated workers, weakened the limitations of natural conditions on production activities, greatly expanded production space, and provided material conditions for the formation of new quality productive forces. In particular, the extensive application of non physical production tools such as industrial Internet and industrial software has greatly enriched the manifestations of production tools, promoted the manufacturing process to become intelligent, the manufacturing paradigm to shift from mass production to mass customization, and promoted productivity to a new level.