The flourishing development of the digital economy and related industries, marked by artificial intelligence, is interpreted by the industry as the arrival of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" and the main battlefield for developing new quality productivity. Industry insiders believe that while the digital economy is driving the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, it has also given rise to various emerging formats and professions, increasing the demand for innovative talents and new labor producers, which deeply affects the supply and demand pattern of the human resources market. The era of digital intelligence calls for more integrated and innovative talents. Song Qizhu, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Radio and Television Network Group Co., Ltd., stated that in the era of digital intelligence, workers mainly organize social production by participating in information production and consumption. High quality workers are the fundamental element and "first resource" of new quality productivity. Compared to traditional industries, the requirements for practitioners in building a new industrial chain for the digital economy have become significantly different. Huang Hanquan, President of the China Institute of Macroeconomics, stated that the widespread application of large models and computing power has improved research efficiency. New technologies in various fields continue to emerge and rapidly iterate, cross integrate, and penetrate into various production factors, giving birth to new industries, new formats, and new driving forces. Innovative talents engaged in technological innovation, entrepreneurs who dare to promote scientific and technological achievements from the laboratory to the production line, and applied talents such as engineers and senior technicians who are proficient in new quality production materials and tools have played a leading role in the formation process of new quality productivity Huang Hanquan said. Kevin Kelly, an Internet expert and future scientist, also said in his video address at the 2024 Sun Island Entrepreneurs' Annual Conference that most human work will be re disassembled into different tasks. Although the original work may be retained, it will face new tasks. This does not mean that the related work will disappear, but that the task content will change, some of which will be completed by robots and artificial intelligence. Digital technology and artificial intelligence will create a large number of new jobs and tasks, and the future income of practitioners largely depends on their ability to work collaboratively with robots and artificial intelligence, "said Kevin Kelly. Harbin Institute of Technology, which is at the forefront of research in the fields of digital economy and artificial intelligence, especially in robotics, is taking unconventional measures to promote the reform of the innovative talent training system and mechanism. For four consecutive years, it has launched the "Future Talents" program, which provides funding of 200000 yuan per undergraduate student per year for doctoral research projects; Provide systematic training and transformation support for teachers to empower traditional disciplines with AI; Advance the layout and construction of a knowledge innovation center driven by AI as the underlying layer; Explore the integration of knowledge graph, ability graph, and quality graph to drive professional and curriculum development. Han Jiecai, an academician of the CAS Member and president of Harbin Institute of Technology, said that colleges and universities need to cultivate more top innovative talents who are brave and good at playing hardball with strong players in key and urgently needed fields and have leading and disruptive innovation capabilities. Improving total factor productivity has become a core goal. In recent years, China's digital economy and related industries have flourished, and the digital economy has been included as a key task in the 14th Five Year Plan by multiple provinces. Zhang Zhiyong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Tower Corporation, said that in terms of total factor productivity, there is still a big gap between China and developed countries. The core goal of the new round of industrial transformation led by digitization, intelligence, and biotechnology is to improve total factor productivity. At the same time, the income sources of practitioners are no longer limited to traditional wage forms. New distribution methods such as intellectual property income, online content royalties, profit sharing, and option incentives will better mobilize the enthusiasm and innovation of workers. Liao Jiasheng, Chairman of China Logistics Group, stated that logistics is a typical traditional industry, but digitalization and artificial intelligence have many applications in the logistics field, such as smart warehousing, smart transportation, and the use of information technologies such as AI, which play a significant role in reducing labor and logistics costs. There are over 3 million vehicles and 38000 shippers on the "Zhongchu Zhiyun" platform of China Logistics Group. The shippers ship the goods on the platform and the drivers collect them. The group has developed a targeted digital system to design the optimal route through intelligent computing in the background. In response to the high logistics costs caused by many drivers returning empty, the background automatically pushes the return waybill to the most suitable driver. Song Qizhu stated that the digital economy and artificial intelligence have triggered corresponding updates in social relationships, economic structures, and organizational models. For entrepreneurs, these changes and updates will bring about innovative forms of labor organization, making the relationship between enterprises and employees more flexible and personalized. Enterprises tend to build a more equal and collaborative work environment, and improve production efficiency and innovation capabilities through new organizational structures such as project-based management or flexible working systems. Yang Zhiming, President of the Chinese Labor Society and former Deputy Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, said that through digital empowerment, entrepreneurs and workers can optimize their combination to generate total factor productivity improvement, which can be described as "a series of waves". At present, online hailing workers mainly include express delivery, food delivery, Didi Chuxing services, home services, platform services, travel services, online live streaming sales, and other forms. The number of practitioners in 2023 is 84 million. Yang Zhiming stated that the digital economy is constantly expanding, and almost every industry and every enterprise can see the shadow of digitization and intelligence to some extent. The embedding of digital empowerment and data as new production factors has given rise to three trend changes in the field of human resources: firstly, the transformation of technical skilled workers from "quantity based" to "quality based". By 2023, China will have over 200 million skilled workers, including 60 million high skilled talents, accounting for about 30%. This is still a significant gap compared to developed countries such as Japan and Germany. Accelerating the cultivation and development of high skilled talents on a large scale and at multiple levels will be a strategic measure for China's economic transformation; The second is the transformation of skilled workers from unlimited supply to limited supply. Taking the construction industry as an example, 2 million out of 2.4 million employees in China Construction Group belong to skilled workers; Thirdly, a large number of "online generations" who have grown up living on the internet have rapidly entered the new business model field driven by data, network collaboration, and platform support. Statistics show that from 2019 to May 2024, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has launched 93 new professions for the whole society, of which 70% belong to digital and intelligent professions. For example, artificial intelligence trainers have replaced the tedious labor on the production line, and the new construction industry is no longer just about climbing up the shelves. Delivery drivers and food delivery riders have been given the new title of "online appointment distributors". These changes make ordinary practitioners feel equal and dignified, which is a type of intelligent labor, "Yang Zhiming said. Experts say that in the era of widespread application of digital economy and artificial intelligence technology, equipment updates, technological iterations, and new infrastructure are certainly important, but more importantly, the improvement of human capital. Replacing humans with machines is not contradictory to human agency, innovation, and flexibility. Artificial intelligence brings about qualitative changes, which in turn drive technological changes. China will enter an era of talent led by high-level engineering and technical talents and an era of skilled workers led by high skilled talents. As China's economic growth shifts from a demographic dividend to a skilled worker dividend, human resources have also begun to leap towards human capital. (New Society)