STORY: Observers see China's new quality productive forces powering economic future
SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage
DATELINE: Jan. 3, 2025
LENGTH: 00:01:24
LOCATION: Beijing
CATEGORY: ECONOMY/ENVIRONMENT

SHOTLIST:
1. various of China's new quality productive forces
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CARL FEY, Professor of Strategy at BI Norwegian Business School
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (French): JEAN-PIERRE PAGE, Editor-in-chief of French magazine Pensee Libre
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MAXIMILIAN FOERST, President and CEO, ZEISS Greater China

STORYLINE:

Observers from various countries are expressing optimism about the development of China's new quality productive forces, saying the trend is driving economic growth.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CARL FEY, Professor of Strategy at BI Norwegian Business School
"I think the new (quality) productive forces will inject momentum to the Chinese economy, because it will drive innovation. And innovation is what one needs to add more value and be able to charge more money and thus facilitate the economy. So it's really critical."

SOUNDBITE 2 (French): JEAN-PIERRE PAGE, Editor-in-chief of French magazine Pensee Libre
"I think that the development of new technologies in China is giving a whole new level of efficiency and quality to their production, to the development of their productive forces. And I think this is something very, very important, very interesting, which is currently taking place in China. I believe that there can be no development of the productive forces in China without combining them with spectacular progress in the field of technological innovation and the environment."

SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MAXIMILIAN FOERST, President and CEO, ZEISS Greater China
"I am extremely positive on basically the general trajectory because the investments are being done in the right place. We are now seeing China transferring from a quantity-driven economy to more of a quality and innovation."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing.
(XHTV)