Abstract: The National 15th Five-Year Plan proposes to seize the higher ground in technological development, promoting in-depth integration of technological and industrial innovation, continuously fostering new quality productive forces, and advancing and deepening "Artificial Intelligence+" to a higher strategic position. Artificial intelligence, as a strategic technology leading the new wave of scientific revolution and industrial transformation, can generate new-quality productive forces through integrating the technological and industrial innovation, though its underlying mechanisms and strategies for action require further research. Within the framework of new quality productive forces in the digital era, artificial intelligence and new quality productive forces exhibit "chemical reactions" across four dimensions: laborers, means of labor, objects of labor, and their optimized combinations. The intrinsic mechanisms involve element supply with bidirectional enhancement, structural embedding from internal to external systems, and functional integration through chain-based closed-loop mechanisms. To further leverage AI in fostering new quality productive forces, a top-down, step-by-step approach should be adopted to establish an open technological innovation system, element circulation network across entire chains, self-sustaining industrial ecosystem, and inclusive multi-stakeholder governance framework. By coordinating government, market, corporates, and societal efforts while implementing national strategies, industrial policies, and innovation mechanisms, we aim to develop roadmaps for advancing intelligent AI integration with new quality productive forces that are intelligent, replicable and feasible.

Key words: Artificial Intelligence (AI), new quality productive forces, scientific and technological innovation, industrial innovation, intelligent economy, digital economy, digital transformation