New Quality Productive Forces

新质生产力Advanced

Chinese policy term for advanced productive capacity led by scientific and technological innovation.

New quality productive forces is a Chinese policy term, first proposed by Xi Jinping during a September 2023 inspection tour of Heilongjiang province, referring to advanced productive capacity generated by revolutionary technological breakthroughs and innovative allocation of production factors, with scientific and technological innovation playing the leading role. China's 2024 Government Work Report listed “accelerating the development of new quality productive forces” as a key task for the year, and the phrase has since become a high-frequency term in industrial policy. Humanoid robots and embodied AI, classified under “future industries,” are frequently promoted by local governments and companies as representative examples of new quality productive forces. For newcomers, understanding this term helps make sense of why policy documents, local subsidies, industrial funds, and investment-promotion news so often mention embodied AI.

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Sources: New quality productive forces - Wikipedia
As of: 2024-03