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During his inspection tour of Heilongjiang in 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping called for "accelerating the formation of a new quality productivity." Since then, developing new quality productivity has become a new mission in the new era.

Marxism argues that productivity is the human ability to utilize and transform nature. Obviously, the stronger this ability is, the higher and more advanced the level of productivity is. Xinzhi Productivity aims at the high level of productivity and advanced level.

There is no doubt that the new type of productivity is advanced productivity. As a country seeking to establish a socialist system, China must naturally develop this new type of advanced productivity that matches the socialist system.

The new in new-quality productivity refers to the new in innovation; the quality in new-quality productivity is quality in the sense of excellence. Therefore, new-quality productivity is inherently different from traditional productivity. Compared with traditional productivity, new-quality productivity is a kind of transcendence, with a higher starting point and a higher goal.

It is of real urgency to develop new and high-quality productivity. Today's world is still haunted by hegemonism. Hegemonic countries attempt to use technological advantages and unequal rules to contain and bully developing countries. As a representative of developing countries, China can only utilize the institutional advantages of socialism and catch up with and surpass the advanced level of world productivity through the development of new and high-quality productivity. It should establish a group of important industries with world-class standards, get rid of the threats and deceptions from hegemonic countries, and safeguard national sovereignty and security.

From the perspective of promoting the socialist cause, it is also necessary to develop a new quality production force. Developing a new quality production force can play a role in promoting continuous improvement of people's quality of life and working conditions, can better implement the people-centered development concept, and add new momentum to the socialist cause.

Productive forces and production relations interact with each other, and advanced productive forces must be combined with advanced production relations. Otherwise, advanced productive forces will be difficult to maintain without the support of advanced production relations.

Due to a mismatch between productivity and production relations, China has suffered. In the past, under the leadership of a force leading the way, the backward, privately-owned production relations reappeared, and many public-owned enterprises, which originally had leading technologies and represented advanced productive forces, were transformed and reformed into private enterprises. The great retrogression of production relations directly led to a great retrogression in enterprise productivity. In reality, a considerable number of transformed and reformed enterprises have been reduced to sweatshops which live off squeezing the workers, or have been reduced to dependent enterprises which live off low-end production chains dependent on foreign capital. In short, reformed and transformed enterprises do not care at all about the level of productivity for a little profit. In the eyes of reinvigorated private business owners, money is the first priority, and making money is the most important thing.

It is understood that in the past period, among private enterprises in the transformation and restructuring category, there were very few enterprises with advanced productivity and independent innovation capabilities. A considerable number of enterprises were sweat-sweat-style enterprises and subordinate enterprises with relatively low-end productivity levels.

As an advanced productivity, new-quality productivity must learn from the lessons of the past period and avoid any further mismatches in production relations. We must clearly recognize that the combination of advanced production relations is a necessary premise for developing new-quality productivity. Without this premise, the development of new-quality productivity will only remain a beautiful aspiration.

In modern society, enterprises are the main bearers of developing productivity, and state-owned enterprises are the main bearers of developing advanced productivity. As advanced productivity, new quality productivity should be consciously and mainly borne by state-owned enterprises in the layout. Distorting the relationship of production with a series of stale concepts and absurd theories, like we did in the past, and letting private enterprises monopolize everything will only delay the overall development of the country and lead the socialist cause to decline.

In fact, advanced production relations and advanced productive forces are equally important. If advanced productive forces are to solve the problem of "creation", then advanced production relations are to solve the problem of who "creates" and for whom. They only blindly want to "create" but abandon the socialist public production relations that represent the interests of the broad masses of the people. No matter how advanced such productivity is, some private business owners who rely on low-end profits will not be willing to do it. Even private business owners who are willing to do it. It may not last for a long time. Because productivity that has nothing to do with the interests of the majority of workers will not stimulate people's enthusiasm for active participation. Without people, the most active factor, productivity will naturally not have vitality.

The new quality of productivity should be combined with advanced relations of production, in line with the principles of Marxism. Xi Jinping pointed out:To develop new-quality productivity, we must further comprehensively deepen reform and form new types of production relations that correspond to it. It is obvious that the new types of production relations that the leader discussed are not production relations in the traditional sense. It is impossible for privately owned enterprises to have new types of production relations. Only by reforming privately owned enterprises, injecting socialist core elements, and changing "one private ownership dominates" to public ownership leading and dominating, can new types of production relations possibly germinate and grow in privately owned enterprises. Only then will privately owned enterprises after the reform have the ability to develop new-quality productivity.

New-quality productivity is an essential part of the theories of the new era and works in tandem with the new development philosophy. Only by thoroughly implementing the new development philosophy can we steadily develop new-quality productivity. The footing of the new development philosophy is sharing, which is an expression of production relations, and a new type of production relations expression at that. In the layout for developing new-quality productivity, we must pay particular attention to the concept of sharing, and combine new-type production relations with new-quality productivity in an ideal way. We can no longer afford to be muddle-headed on questions of principles.

The new era is a historical stage in which the broad masses of the people look forward to revitalizing socialism. Only by completely abandoning old concepts, old habits and absurd theories can the grand layout of the new era be realized step by step. Resistance must exist, and it is imperative to eliminate resistance. Comprehensively building a modern socialist country requires China in the new era to change its clothes and follow a new path. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we are determined to reform the past, solve the problems brought about by previous reforms through reform, and establish a new development model that supports and coordinates new production relations and new quality productivity in the new era. Only then can China have a real future!

(The author is a missionary of Xinyang Red Resources Development Center;