Deepen Reforms and Promote the Formation of Production Relations Commensurate with the Digital Economy Era
The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to pro-mote better adapt the relations of production to productive forces,the superstructure to economic base,and national gov-ernance to social development so as to provide a strong impetus and institutional support for Chinese modernization.Ac-cording to the basic principle of Marxist historical materialism,at different stages the productive forces must have corre-sponding production relations.Production relations are not immutable but possess social and historical attributes.Throughout world history,every significant leap in productive forces has been based on the industrial forms of the time,driving the evolution of socio-economic system.In the era of digital economy,we need to gain insights into the new char-acteristics of socio-economic system,explore the direction of reform so as to build a new type of production relations.This paper builds a theoretical framework from four aspects:ownership forms,organization and market,social distri-bution,international production relations,and discusses the evolutionary characteristics of production relations in the digi-tal economy era.The research findings are as follows:Firstly,the ownership and control of the means of production have changed.In the past,ownership of the means of production mainly referred to ownership of capital,but now the impor-tance of ownership and rights of use of data elements are becoming increasingly prominent.Secondly,organizations and markets have become more flexible and diverse.Compared with the traditional market,there are new developments in platform organization forms,online market mechanisms and competition rules.Thirdly,the two opposite trends of inclu-sive social distribution and widening disparities coexist.While digital technology and digital economy enhance social in-clusiveness,the contradictory relationship between human and artificial intelligence has attracted much attention.Fourthly,international production relations are more open,posing higher requirements for cross-border data flows and co-operation digital technology.Deepening reform is the fundamental path to forming new production relations which is compatible with the new quality of productive forces.Because of the inherent lag in institutional changes,the transformation of production rela-tions may not keep pace with the rapid advancement of productive forces.Through reform,it is possible not only to align the adaptation of production relations with the process of productive forces but also to avoid the lag in the evolution of production relations,so as to leverage the proactive role of production relations in the development of productive forces.To this end,this paper puts forward the following reform suggestions:Firstly,enhance the marketization level of the on-line markets and establish a high-standard market system.Secondly,strengthen the supply of systems in new fields and new tracks to better leverage the role of the government.Thirdly,focus on adjusting production relations in key areas such as the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence,new organizations,new business forms,and the rela-tionship with the traditional economy,emphasizing the practical effects of reforms.Fourthly,expand the open-up environ-ment and strengthen security governance.The marginal contribution of this paper is reflected in the following three points:Firstly,this paper constructs a theo-retical analysis framework for new production relations.Some literature emphasizes the relationships between people and between humans and machines,as well as market resources allocation mechanisms of and organization methods.Other lit-erature further emphasize distribution,suggesting that new production relations include new styles of ownership,more adaptive factor markets,and sharing-oriented distribution trends.But they do not propose a theoretical analysis frame-work for new production relations.Secondly,this paper provides a realistic explanation for the paradigm shift in produc-tion relations in the digital economy era.Based on Marxist productive force theory,this paper clarifies the intrinsic con-nection between digital economy and new production relations.Thirdly,this paper explores the construction path of new production relations from the perspective of comprehensively deepening reforms.
New Quality Productive ForcesProduction RelationsDigital Economy EraReform
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