The materialist concept of history is a scientific theory on the laws of development of human society, and productivity is the most central conceptual system. The new quality productivity is the contemporary advanced productive forces that have been spawned by revolutionary breakthroughs in technology, innovative allocation of production factors, and in-depth transformation and upgrading of industries, and it is the productive forces that have become more integrated and embodied new connotations in the digital era. As an advanced form of productivity, new quality productivity is an inevitable requirement of the times to help China’s modernization construction. At present, new productive forces should be cultivated in three ways, namely, the construction of the workforce, the invention and use of new production tools, and the shaping of production relations adaptable to the new productive forces, so as to accumulate new momentum for the realization of high-quality development of China’s economy, and to help push forward the modernization of Chinese style in a comprehensive manner with high-quality development.