Against the backdrop of concurrent economic transformation, deepening digitalization, and green upgrading, this study aims to uncover the mechanisms through which the system of new quality productive forces drives high-quality economic development. Drawing on a six-element framework comprising new-quality labor, new means of production, new labor objects, new technology, production organization, and data elements, the study uses panel data from 30 Chinese provinces covering the period 2014–2023 and applies dynamic qualitative comparative analysis (dynamic QCA) to examine the relevant configurational pathways and their cross-temporal evolution. The results show that no single condition constitutes a temporally and regionally stable necessary condition for high-quality economic development. Instead, high-quality economic development is primarily realized through three pathways: a technology–organization–tool-dominated pathway, a talent–data–carrier-led pathway, and a technology–organization–carrier-compensation pathway. The explanatory power of these pathways also varies across stages. The findings indicate that high-quality economic development arises from the synergistic configuration and dynamic recombination of multiple elements of new quality productive forces.
Liu et al. (Fri,) studied this question.