The Study Of The Practice And Theory Of The China's Productivity Development

Productivity is the ability that the labourer uses to produce social wealth,such as materialand intellectual products. Being a basis for the the whole history and a kind of socialrevolution, the development of productivity plays a decisive role in the process of social andeconical development. It aslo provides an material pre-condition for the transition from onesociety to another. The fundamental task for socialism is to emancipate and developproductivity, thus the study of regular pattern of the development and movement ofproductivity is nesessary for achieving the basic task. The development of productivity runsthe same course as the Dialectical Materialism and the Historical materialism, all being themost important and fundamental aspect of the Maxism scientific and acdemic system and atheoretical fundation for the Historic Materialism.The thoery about the development of productivity that Marx proposed has turned out tobe scientific. In the mid and later1840s, Marx and Engels gradually put forward this thoery inthe process of establishing Historic Materialism on the basis of the ideas left by theirforfathers. Therfore it is the thoery about practice and progress. The social history andpractice condition keep changing and developing,so is the case with the theory. Thecommunist leadership of Soviet Union representyed by Lenin and Stalin enriched anddeveloped this theory during the process of practice. Particularly, it has come down in onecontinuous line with the theoty proposed by the leadership of the Communist Party of Chinarepresented by Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jing Zemin and Hu Jintao, thus they bring outthe best in each other. At first, Mao Zedong came up with the hoitorical task of developingChina's productivity,then Deng xiaoping put forward the idea that science and technology isthe primary productivity and he furher pointed out that what kind of productivity shouldchina develop. Jiang Zemin prodosed that The CPC must always represent the developmenttrend of Chinas advanced productive forces, which made it clear of China's major forces. Thenew generation of CPC leadership represented by Hu Jintao initiated the Scientific Ouylook on Development and how to develop China's productivity.In order to deal with the problems that China faces during the process of its development,the economic circles in China has carried out a series of discussion and research. They havecome up with some arguments about productivity successively such as the headspring theory,dynamic theory, determinism, essential factor theory, fundation theory, process theory,essence theory, property theory, law theory, relation theory, system theory, science theory,environment theory, society theory.Development of productive forces theory of Marxism is systematic. Productive forcesnot only include laborers, labor instruments and labor objects, but also develop with theinfluence of various factors. Based on the differences between productivity elements anddevelopment of productivity factors, the author thinks they are the relation of form andcontent. The development of production forces are ultimately manifested on the change ofproductivity elements, and the development of productivity factors' progress is the reason ofpromoting the productivity elements. In the first volume of Das Kapital, Marx pointed out that"The productive power of labour is determined by manifold conditions, among others by theaverage grade of competence of the workers, the level of development of science and itstechnological applicability, the social combination of the process of production, the scope andthe efficacy of the means of production, and by natural relationships." Productivity is theorganic entirety and system of these elements and factors, and the open system which closecontacts and interacts with the surroundings. The productive forces development changes inthe environment induce the changes of such productivity factors as eduction, science andtechnology and management. The coordinated variation of productivity factors' leads to thecorresponding alteration of labourers, labor instruments and labor objects. The improvementof labourers' quality and efficiency, the rise of the labor material efficacy and the expansion ofthe scale of new labor objects all show the development of productivity, which further causethe adaptive changes of the productivity development environment. Productivity evolvesspirally in the development mechanism, which is consisted of environment, factors andelements. However, each productivity factor has a different position and function in thedevelopment of productivity. Among them:natural condition is the foundation of the productivity development, science and technology is the forerunner, the labourers' educationcondition is the guarantee, the social combination during the production process is theeconomic requirement, the expanding scale and the improving efficiency of productionmaterial is an important means.On the basis of theoretical analysis, this article, from the point of positive analysis, hasstudied the practice of China contemporary development of productivity througheconometrics for the first time. First, from the positive analysis of factors of productivitydevelopment in China, we can discover the following two aspects. In the long term, there is astable relationship between the improvement the quality of laborers, the advancement of labormaterial performance, the appearance of new objects of labor, the expansion of scale and thedevelopment of productivity. And, in the sense of statistics, the explanatory power ofadvancement in productivity factors for the development of productivity is rather stronger. Inthe short term, labor, means of labor and the object of labor have clearer performance functionon development of productivity than in long term, which mainly due to the existence of errorcorrection mechanism, and random error of productivity development in short term willreduce the function the productivity factors have on it. Second, from the positive analysis offactors of productivity development only we can see that education, science and technology,the blossom of administrative cause, reasonable economic scale, natural condition especiallythe abundance of resources can strongly explain the long-range increase of productivity. Third,the positive study of the environment of productivity development also indicates thatenvironment of nature, economy and society has important influences in long-termdevelopment of productivity, that is, the optimization of economy and society environmentaccompanies with the development of productivity, and pollution of natural environment hascommon trend with that of China. Therefore, if we want to increase productivity, we shouldbuild proper economic and social environment, at the same time, pay particular attention toprotection of natural environment. Fourth, this article studied the motives of productivitydevelopment in China from positive analysis views. We can learn from the result that themotive of development of social productivity is a system, among which the consumption ofhuman, the need of development is the original motive, the factors of productivity development; the contradictions between these factors is the direct motive; the contradictionsbetween the relations of production and productivity is the fundamental motive. At last, thearticle also studied the internal mechanism of China's productivity development, and pointedout that the productivity development function is a composite function consisting ofenvironmental function, factor function and element function, which has systematiccharacteristic.