Abstract: Developing new quality productive forces is an inherent requirement and key focus for promoting high-quality development. As a new type of production factor, data elements, with their revolutionary characteristics, are highly compatible with the development of new quality productivity, and are deeply reconstructing the driving mechanism and the development paradigm of economic growth. From the logic perspective, the infinite supply, precise insights, value spillover, and integrated penetration of data elements effectively promote the high-end, intelligent and green new quality productivity development towards the high end. From the internal mechanism perspective, data elements comprehensively empower the improvement of total factor productivity and the construction of a modern industrial system through factor empowerment, technology drive, intellectual enhancement, and integrated innovation. At present, there have formed multiple supports to the empowerment of new quality productivity by data elements, but there are still challenges in ownership definition, circulation mechanisms, and security governance. In the future, we should actively promote multidimensional collaboration in systems, technology, talent, markets, and security, consolidate the supporting foundation for the value release of data elements, and continuously drive the development of new quality productivity.

Key words: new quality productivity, data elements, total factor productivity, digital economy, high-quality development, artificial intelligence