From the basic theory of economics, the so-called quality refers to the use value characteristics of products that can meet actual needs. Entering a new era of high-quality development reflects the true nature of economic development and its use value to meet the people’s growing needs for a better life. The focus on the supply side will become particularly important and receive greater concern. The authenticity of economic development is essentially motivated by the pursuit of higher quality goals under certain economic conditions.
The multidimensionality and richness of the content of development quality requires a high degree of innovation in the selection of development strategies and models. Systematically create development advantages, take a path that is realistic and distinctive, and meet the needs in various effective and sustainable ways. The people’s ever-increasing multifaceted needs are the essential feature of high-quality development. Each region can pursue rich and colorful advantages based on its own reality. The quality of development is ultimately determined by whether economic development can meet the people’s growing needs for a better life. Judgment criteria, and the needs of a good life are not just purely material requirements, but will increasingly be manifested as requirements for the all-round development of people. Different from the mechanism that is mainly driven by instrumental rationality in the high-speed growth stage, the high-quality development stage There must be a new power mechanism with more authentic value and rationality, that is, a more conscious focus on development strategic goals that can more directly reflect the people’s aspirations and the true purpose of economic development. The supply side of this new power mechanism is innovation-led, and the demand side It is what the people yearn for. The inherent requirement of this new dynamic mechanism is the effective combination of the instrumental rationality of the market economy and the true nature of economic development.
Modern economics originated from the Enlightenment Era in the 18th century, with the Industrial Revolution as its realistic background. Therefore, the development of economics has developed in a direction dominated by instrumental rationality and is largely based on metaphors from physics, conceiving of economic activities as “machines.” As a result, concepts and analytical methods such as equilibrium, optimization, maximization, control, and regulation have become the main thinking tools of economics.
Putting “high quality” as a core concept in the expression of major policy implications is a challenge to economics. In the academic subject framework of modern economics, “quality” is basically a factor that has been “abstracted” and is generally attributed to factors that are “assumed to be constant” or replaced by price, that is, it is assumed to be relatively stable. The quality of high-priced products is higher than the quality of lower-priced products, that is, the so-called “high quality and better price”, which can be called the “quality-price” symmetry assumption.
Our country’s economic development has entered a new era. In order to maintain sustainable development and achieve the two centenary goals, we urgently need to explore the driving force and transformation of our country’s economic development in the new era. Growth theory is to continuously explore the fundamental driving force of development, and the fundamental driving force of development lies in innovation. From our country It can be seen from the evolution of the industrial structure and the driving force of industrial development that my country’s primary industry, second industry and tertiary industry serve as the leading driving force industries respectively. At different stages of industrial development, their driving forces for growth are different. They are all driven by material capital. Input factors such as labor force have evolved towards innovation. Entering the new era, the main driving force for the development of my country’s primary, secondary and tertiary industries has been transformed into innovation. Innovation is the driving force for my country’s high-quality development in the new era. Driven by innovation, our country will be Relying on factor investment and sacrificing the environment for development, transformation and upgrading to service industry upgrades and high-end manufacturing development, in-depth urbanization and technological innovation, etc. In order to successfully complete the transformation of the driving force for high-quality economic development in the new era, we have proposed that enterprises insist on innovation Suggestions such as realizing the dynamic transformation of the dominant position in my country.
Of course, economists are not unaware that the ultimate purpose of production is to meet people’s actual life needs, that is, to obtain useful products, and the so-called “useful products” actually contain strong concrete quality characteristics. However, the ultimate goal of production is not necessarily the direct purpose of economic behavior. Moreover, if people only produce products for their own use, that is, completely assimilate the ultimate purpose of production into the direct purpose of production, then productivity will be greatly restricted, because such a self-sufficient natural economy actually denies Possibility of social division of labor. Therefore, human society is bound to move towards an exchange economy (market economy) based on division of labor, and products become commodities, that is, products produced for exchange. In this way, the production purpose of each producer changes from providing use value for himself to obtaining the use value provided by the other party at the expense of providing use value to others. At this time, the quality desirability reflected in the use value of the product changes from focusing on the quality desirability of the products one consumes to focusing on whether the other party can recognize and accept the use value quality of the product. Adam Smith (1983) said: “Whoever wishes to do business with others must first propose so.