Abstract: The concept of new quality productivity is the latest achievement of the sinicization and modernization of Marxist productivity theory. To understanding new quality productivity should go beyond the binary oppositional thinking of old and new, traditional and modern, and return to specific historical contexts. Based on the division of production tools, human society has roughly gone through four generations of replacement: primitive productivity, manual productivity, machine productivity, and digital productivity. With the transformation of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence from auxiliary tools for productivity to core engines, the current new quality productivity is accelerating its evolution towards the intelligent stage of digital productivity. The life cycle of productivity can be divided into five stages: incubation, germination, expansion, stability, and transformation. Currently, new quality productivity has passed the incubation stage and entered the germination stage, becoming an independent form of productivity. The core task of developing new quality productivity is to strive to improve the level of intelligence in various fields and accelerate the transformation of new quality productivity from local breakthroughs to the penetration of the whole society. Therefore, accelerating the development of new quality productivity requires adhering to the people-centered value orientation, quickly tackling key core technologies in fields such as the new generation of artificial intelligence, actively building new production relations that are more compatible with new quality productivity, and achieving a coordinated evolution of value leadership, technological breakthroughs, and institutional changes.

Key words: new quality productivity, artificial intelligence, intergenerational replacement of productivity, productivity lifecycle, new production relations