The purpose of developing knowledge economy is to narrow the gap between countries and seek debate materials.

First of all, knowledge economy is the inevitable product of the development of productive forces.

In the process of material economy development for more than two thousand years, from primitive economy, agricultural economy to industrial economy, it has paid a huge price for the excessive consumption of natural resources and the serious imbalance of ecological environment, and built a modern high civilization. When we comprehensively examine the evolution of the world economic form since 2000, it is an indisputable fact that the material economy supported by traditional production factors such as land, labor and capital has come to an end, the earth is overwhelmed, and there has been a profound crisis in sustainable development; There is no choice but to apply new production factors such as information, knowledge and technology to replace traditional factors on a large scale under the existing civilization conditions, and to build and develop the latest civilization of human society-knowledge economy.

1. Knowledge economy is the necessity of knowledge accumulation and scientific and technological progress.

Knowledge economy is an economy based on the production, distribution and use of knowledge and information. From the day when human society existed, knowledge existed as an important element of society. In the competition of obtaining the necessities of life in the nature of human society, human economy has experienced the forms of nomadic economy, agricultural economy and industrial economy. This is especially true in the industrial economy. The steam engine invented by Watt, as well as Jenny's spinning machine and motor, extended and released human physical strength and brought the industrial and economic civilization that we are enjoying today. This kind of steam engine, textile machine and motor was the most advanced knowledge crystallization of mankind at that time. Everyone can realize that in these past economic forms, the more economic forms developed, the more knowledge was needed, and the greater the role knowledge played. Quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and finally it will reach such a turning point that is more important than any other factors such as ocean, land, forest, mineral deposits, factories, machinery and equipment, money (capital), and thus a new economic form-knowledge economy has emerged. Mankind began to enter a brand-new socio-economic form.

2. The essence of knowledge economy is the high intelligence of social productive forces.

Based on science and technology, the social productive forces in the form of upgrading are constantly intelligent, which reflects the historical trend and general results of development and the development process of productive forces from low to high. This trend and process have generally gone through two stages of development. (1) is the "humanization of nature" stage, that is, human beings use wisdom to obtain material and energy from nature, arm themselves with various material means, and enhance their ability to use, transform and conquer nature. The overall result is that human beings have created material civilization represented by agriculture and industrial economy, which has made the direct production of material materials reach a high level, and human beings have successively entered agricultural society and industrial society. (2) The stage of "Naturalization of Man", that is, in the process of long-term development and utilization of nature, with the accumulation of experience and the improvement of technical means, people gradually understand nature, master the laws of natural movement and change, and abstract and internalize these understandings into the essential power of human intelligence and knowledge, so as to realize the shaping of man, enrich and improve his nature, make his behavior more in line with objective laws, and have greater freedom in front of nature. The overall result of this process is that people have created a new economic type-knowledge economy on the basis of material economy, and raised social productivity to a higher development stage-electronic information productivity stage.

3. Knowledge economy is a brand-new social productivity system with intelligence as the core.

It takes scientific knowledge as the resource base, high-tech means as the intermediary and economic development as the goal. It is an advanced productive force development form with close combination and benign interaction of knowledge, technology and economy, and an economy with science and technology as the main body and knowledge, production, distribution, innovation and use as the elements. Taking creative knowledge as the core, using knowledge to produce and develop knowledge products and promoting the development of science and technology, economy and society will be the trend of world economic development in the future.

4. Knowledge-based economy does not and cannot change the essence of material power as social productive forces.

On the one hand, the power of knowledge must be guaranteed by material power, on the other hand, it will eventually be transformed into material power and material products (including spiritual products of course) to meet people's growing material and cultural needs. The emergence of knowledge economy marks a revolutionary change in the way people obtain material products. It is no longer from material to material, which consumes huge manpower, material resources and financial resources, but from knowledge to material. The development of intellectual resources drives the development of material resources. This is a fundamental change in the development mode of productive forces and reflects the historical trend of continuous intelligence of productive forces.

Second, knowledge economy is an advanced economic form to promote the development of productive forces.

Knowledge economy marks another upgrade of human productivity, that is, a leap from the era of ordinary machines to the era of intelligent machines. The key factor contributing to this qualitative change is the rapid development of science and technology and its comprehensive reform of the productivity system.

1, the progress of modern science and technology "softened" the social productive forces system.

With the development of computer and other information technologies, the elements, production processes and products of social productive forces system began to transform into "soft" aspects; The labor force has changed from a large amount of physical input to a small number of cultural and scientific talents, and the production tools have changed from heavy ordinary machines to delicate and clever intelligent machines; The object of labor has changed from natural raw materials to high-quality synthetic materials and new energy; Production management has changed from empirical management to systematic scientific management, and the production process has been automated, digitized and virtualized. The design and inspection of automobiles and airplanes can be simulated on a computer. Soft ingredients such as trademarks and brands of many products account for an increasing proportion of commodity value, and the "softening rate" of some traditional industries has been further improved. All this shows that the "hardened" material productivity system is changing to the "softened" knowledge productivity system.

2. The development of modern science and technology has created a new productivity system-information industry and service industry.

The proportion of knowledge-based soft products is increasing, and a number of computer and software enterprises represented by Microsoft are becoming pillar industries in some developed countries. In today's world, international competition has mainly become the competition of technology and knowledge. Whoever has mastered the knowledge and the most advanced high-tech products will have a competitive advantage. This can be measured by the number of patents obtained by the country, the number of high-level scientists, and the proportion of R&D in GDP.

3. The development of modern science and technology has optimized the overall function of the productivity system.

Modern science and technology have changed the mode of economic growth, making human social and economic life increasingly develop in the direction of high efficiency, high quality and sustainability. Due to the development of modern natural science, social science and comprehensive science, people's understanding of nature and society is more comprehensive, in-depth, systematic and subtle, they have mastered more natural and economic laws, promoted the close combination of knowledge, technology and economy, and changed the mode of economic growth and the effect of economic activities. In the past, extensive management that relied on a lot of resources and labor and consumed a lot of materials and energy is being replaced by intensive management that relies more on science and technology and pays attention to efficiency and effectiveness. The overall quality of the national economy is constantly improving, and the relationship between economic development and population, resources and environment is more coordinated. All these will make human economic and social life enter a virtuous circle of high efficiency, high quality, harmony and justice and the realm of sustainable development.

4. The knowledge economy is an advanced economic form, because compared with the traditional economy, the knowledge economy has achieved four changes:

① The transformation from tangible assets to intangible assets. The first production factor of knowledge economy is knowledge as intangible assets. This economy is no longer dependent on scarce resources. It allocates natural resources rationally, scientifically, comprehensively and intensively through knowledge, and realizes the optimal utilization of resources. It constantly develops rich and even inexhaustible natural resources through knowledge, thus creating new great wealth.

② Change from acquiring knowledge itself to developing knowledge-seeking ability. In the era of highly developed industrial economy, knowledge acquisition has become the basic production factor of manufacturers. In the era of knowledge economy, it is not enough to just acquire knowledge. As a commodity, knowledge is unique and irreplaceable. The supplier of knowledge is monopolized. Intellectual property rights and knowledge secrecy make the cost of knowledge very high, so it is the supreme task to form one's own knowledge production capacity. At the same time, due to the accelerated update of technology, the cycle of knowledge update is shortened, so any knowledge has only temporary significance. .