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"New Quality Productive Forces and High-level Science & Technology Self-reliance" Column

Re-examination of Self-reliance and Self-improvement in Sci⁃ ence and Technology Under the New Quality Productive Forces 

Yang Zhen 

(Institute of Industrial Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100006, China)

Abstract: High-level self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology is an im⁃ portant support for accelerating the realization of new quality productive forces. As we encounter  a new form of productivity, it is essential to re-examine the theoretical connotation, key support⁃ ing elements, key issues, and implementation path of high-level self-reliance and selfimprovement in science and technology. To fully understand its theoretical connotation, we must  move beyond a narrow focus on technological security and national capacity. Instead, we should  adopt a more comprehensive view that encompasses the element foundation and technological  ecology necessary to support the new quality productive forces paradigm. This involves forming  an innovative configuration of production factors and an advanced technological system. On this  basis, it is important to clarify the key supporting elements and organizational foundations of  self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology. The new strategic positioning of self-reliance and self-improvement of science and technology under new quality productive forces is to support and even lead a new round of technological  revolution, transforming China from merely being a participant to becoming a source of techno⁃ logical revolution. Its value positioning is to create high-level, comprehensive value creation  based on economic, social, and environmental values. This will provide a new production func⁃ tion that systematically improves total factor productivity driven by technological innovation and  institutional innovation. The self-reliance and self-improvement of science and technology un⁃ der the new quality productive forces face three core issues: the formation and breakthrough of  key core technologies, the transformation and functional coupling of innovation capabilities  across different subjects, and the integration of industrial innovation and technological innova⁃ tion. This matches the key element support framework of the "elements organization industry"  for self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology under the new quality produc⁃ tive forces. Specifically, deepening the exploration of the three key issues supports the formation  of new quality productivity through self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technol⁃ ogy, including the supply of independent innovation talents and the formation and research of  core technologies in key fields supported by key elements, the transition and functional coupling  of innovation capabilities of heterogeneous innovation subjects supported by key capabilities, and the integration of industrial chains and innovation chains in the process of integrating indus⁃ trial innovation and technological innovation supported by key industries. In the future, there are three levels of research areas for deepening self-reliance and selfimprovement in science and technology under new quality productive forces. First, the research  on technological innovation strategies tailored to various levels and subject categories of selfreliance and self-improvement in science and technology; Second, the research on innovative ca⁃ pabilities and models for self-reliance and self-improvement in science and technology; Third, the research on industrial policies and innovation policies aimed at self-reliance and selfimprovement in science and technology. 

Key words: new quality productive forces; self-reliance and self-improvement in science and  technology; technological innovation; issues