Theoretical Logic and Promotion Paths of New Quality Productive Forces Empowering Global Value Chain Upgrading

Against the backdrop of accelerating changes unseen in a century and the systemic restructuring of the global industrial landscape, the global value chains (GVCs) are facing numerous challenges, including the imbalances in benefits, structural rigidity, and fragmentation and reconstruction. From the perspective of new quality productive forces, this paper analyzes the path that new quality productive forces helps China to promote the leapfrogging in GVCs. Subsequently, it constructs a three-dimensional analytical framework of "revolutionary technological breakthroughs-innovative allocation of production factors-in-depth industrial transformation and upgrading", to deeply analyze the intrinsic theoretical logic of how new quality productive forces empower the leapfrogging in GVCs. Finally, addressing the triple practical challenges China currently faces: industrial development bottlenecks, transformation dilemmas, and institutional constraints, the paper proposes specific pathways, such as implementing targeted policies to build a new layout for a modern industrial system, coordinating efforts to accelerate the high-end, intelligent, and green transformation of industries, and precisely adapting to construct a new paradigm of production relations. These pathways aim to provide a solid theoretical foundation and actionable policy references for China to achieve the leapfrogging in GVCs.