Gao Peiyong delivers a keynote speech during the Dialogue Between New Quality Productive Forces and Digital Economy Development on May 26, 2024.

Editor's Note:
On May 26, 2024, the Dialogue Between New Quality Productive Forces and Digital EconomyDevelopment, hosted by Renmin University of China, was held in the Xiong'an New Area, north China's Hebei Province. During the dialogue, Gao Peiyong, an academy member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech titled Digital Economy in Context of Developing New Quality Productive Forces. Here is the full text of this speech.

The digital economy is nothing new to us, and we have already been discussing this topic for many years. Yet, from today's new historical vantage point, our discussions on the digital economy differ significantly from those in the past. The most profound change is the shift in context. This shift in context not only changes the nature of our discussions but also makes them uniquely significant.

'New' context of digital economy

One of the contextual changes is the theme of the dialogue — "New Quality Productive Forces."