Injecting talent momentum into new quality productivity

The development history of human society is a history of continuous quantitative and qualitative changes in technology driven productivity. New technologies empower new industries, give birth to new formats, accelerate the formation of a trend of integration, intersection, and multi-point breakthroughs, and accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces. New quality productivity is different from traditional productivity, involving new fields and high technological content. It is driven by technological innovation and supported by high-level talents, and is related to the development of strategic emerging industries and future industries.

A thousand years of foundation, talent is the foundation. In the new era and new journey, we must seize the most active and decisive active subject of "people", devote ourselves to attracting talents, nurturing talents with care, and sincerely love talents, in order to achieve a new leap in new quality productive forces and continuously inject surging momentum into the high-quality development of China's economy.

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Talents are the key to triggering qualitative change

Industrial iteration is an important carrier of new quality productivity. New productive forces must rely on strategic emerging industries such as new generation information technology, biotechnology, new energy, new materials, high-end equipment, new energy vehicles, green environmental protection, aerospace, and marine equipment, as well as future industries such as brain like intelligence, digital information, genetic technology, future networks, deep sea aerospace development, hydrogen energy and energy storage. To accelerate the formation of new productive forces, it is necessary to build a modern industrial system, promote cross-border integration, extend industrial chains, and form industrial clusters.

The talent team is a key resource for new quality productivity. Productivity is a complex system, with its basic elements including workers, means of labor, and objects of labor. Workers are the most important and active factor among them. The quality and level of the talent team directly determine the level of productivity. The improvement of the quality of the talent team is a gradual process accompanied by the improvement of connotation and structural optimization. It cannot be achieved overnight, but it is the quantitative change of the talent team that has given rise to the qualitative change of productivity.

Taking "quality" as the key, set up a "big stage" for attracting innovative talents. People are the creators and users of new productive forces. In the current severe and complex internal and external situation, the urgent task is to find ways to activate innovation entities, fully leverage the main role of enterprises and talents in scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and make them the driving force for integrating innovation elements and transforming innovation achievements. To stimulate the endogenous driving force of innovation entities, broaden the channels for connecting scientific and technological innovation with market resources and social demands, comprehensively and deeply promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and promote more innovative talents to become leaders, promoters, and witnesses in accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces.

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Planting the "wutong tree" to attract talents

Technology is the primary productive force, talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force. Accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces ultimately relies on innovative talents. We must adhere to industrial upgrading as the direction, technological innovation as the key, and talent resources as the foundation, and widely gather innovative talents in the pursuit of novelty and quality.

Opening up new fields and tracks for development through technological innovation, shaping new driving forces and advantages for development, is the trend and an urgent requirement for high-quality development. To accelerate the formation of new productive forces, it is necessary to adhere to the guidance of building innovative talents, research and formulate innovative talent policies for attracting talents, promote the concentration of innovative elements in key areas and industrial clusters in key parks, optimize the layout of industrial clusters, and promote and achieve the transformation of scientific and technological innovation talents from "fighting alone" to "grasping fingers and becoming fists".

Based on the reality of regional development, we should plant a "wutong tree" to attract talents, open up the "fast lane" to promote innovation, remove the "fence wall" to hinder innovation, expand the new group of talents in emerging industries, lead the new track, create new advantages, and transform the "key variable" of innovative talents into the "maximum increment" to accelerate the formation of new quality productivity.

Technology is the foundation of national strength, and innovation is the soul of national progress. Currently, the competition in global industrial capabilities, high-tech capabilities, and market capabilities is unprecedentedly fierce, and talent has become the decisive factor in responding to this series of competitions. To accelerate the formation of new quality productive forces, it is necessary to focus on the key development areas and industries of China's strategic emerging industries, implement a list system of scarce talents, target the introduction of a group of "high-precision and cutting-edge" innovative talents and teams, and improve the accuracy of talent attraction and industry adaptability. Grasp the new trends and characteristics of talent globalization, implement more active, open, and effective talent policies, vigorously promote international exchange and cooperation of talents, build effective mechanisms for talent attraction and utilization, and gather talents from all over the world for use.

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Focusing on cultivating innovative and top-notch talents

Under the new situation, the whole society should work together and cooperate, in accordance with the new standards and requirements for accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces, and effectively carry out the training of high-level talents.

Vigorously promote the spirit of science throughout society. Promoting the spirit of science is a prerequisite and guarantee for improving the scientific literacy of the entire population. We should promote the rational spirit, pragmatic spirit, and innovative spirit of science, and create an environment and atmosphere that respects science, talents, and encourages innovation throughout society. To align various courses in schools with ideological and political courses, create a synergistic effect, guide the new generation of young people to establish a correct worldview, outlook on life, and values, learn scientific thinking, strengthen scientific spirit, and strive to overcome difficulties and climb new heights for the development of the country and social progress.

Adhere to the supply side reform of higher education. Universities should adapt to the changes in the total demand and structure of the talent market caused by accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces, implement professional structure adjustment and optimization, and enhance the connotation, in order to improve the matching degree between talent cultivation and social needs; Connect with strategic emerging industries and future industrial development needs, accelerate the deep integration of modern information technology with humanities majors, humanities with science, engineering, agriculture, and medical sciences; Optimize the professional curriculum and add courses related to new technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and human skills to cultivate students' digital literacy and skills.

Deepen the integration of industry and education and school enterprise collaboration. Promote the organic connection between the education chain, talent chain, industry chain, and innovation chain, promote the participation of industries in the design and implementation of professional training programs in universities, timely transmit the requirements of accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces for high-level talents to the human resource supply unit, and achieve the coordinated development of the real economy, scientific and technological innovation, and human resources. Promoting collaborative education between schools and enterprises, key enterprises in strategic emerging industries and future industries should innovate order based training models, jointly build practical training bases and platforms, and cultivate specialized talents needed for economic and social development.

Focus on cultivating innovative and top-notch talents. Innovative and top-notch talents are the "locomotive" of the labor force and the most strategic talent resource for accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces. Strengthen relevant legislative work, do a good job in top-level design, proactively formulate and implement China's innovative and top-notch talent strategic plan, and improve various institutional arrangements such as "unveiling and leading", "horse racing", and "overcoming challenges". Deepen the collaboration mechanism between scientific research and talent cultivation, integrate scientific research resources, educational resources, industry resources, social resources, and international resources, and cultivate a group of innovative and top-notch talents standing at the forefront of the world. Give full play to the role of universities as the main body for cultivating innovative and top-notch talents, strengthen the selection and training of students, break down path dependence and disciplinary barriers, explore interdisciplinary integration and competitive education, and innovate talent cultivation models.

Author Introduction Yan Yan, a special researcher at the Beijing Research Center for Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era and an associate professor at the School of Economics of Central University for Nationalities

Source | Guangming Daily,December 3, 2023 07 Edition  Copyrights Reversed