Photo taken on March 22, 2024 shows an intelligent assembly control system at the 2024 Munich Shanghai Electronic Production Equipment Exhibition in Shanghai.

The concept of new quality productive forces was first proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his September 2023 inspection tour of Heilongjiang, China's northeasternmost province.

In December 2023, the central economic work conference once again stressed the necessity of accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces.

In 2024, developing new quality productive forces was written into the government work report for the first time.

So, what are the new quality productive forces? What are the connotations and characteristics of such forces? How can we build such productive forces in order to better promote high-quality development and modernization through a Chinese path? To explore the background and the path for the development of new quality productive forces, China News Release interviewed Prof. Zhang Zhanbin, director of the China Center for Modernization Research at the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee (National Academy of Governance).