Productivity refers to the combination of workers with certain production experience and skills and the means of production they use. It is the power that occurs in the process of material production, that is, the ability of human beings to conquer and transform nature in the process of production and obtain material materials suitable for their own needs. It is the relationship between man and nature in the production process. Productivity includes three elements: workers, means of labor and objects of labor. Workers play a leading role in productivity; The production tools in the means of labor are the main signs of the development level and nature of productive forces and the division of economic development periods. When science and technology are applied to the production process, it can penetrate into the labor force, labor materials and labor objects, make them undergo qualitative changes, produce great material strength, and thus transform them into real direct productive forces. Therefore, science and technology are also productive forces.

Produce goods

Refers to all material conditions necessary for people to engage in the production of material materials, that is, the sum of labor materials and labor objects. Also known as means of production. Including land, machinery, equipment, workshops, tools, fuel, raw materials, auxiliary materials, etc. The means of production are the material factors in the productive forces. In any social production, people always use the means of production to produce labor products through their own labor. In the means of production, production tools play a decisive role, and the development level of production tools determines the breadth and depth of human conquest and transformation of nature. The means of production always exist in a certain socio-economic form and become the material undertaker of a specific production relationship. In different socio-economic forms, due to the different forms of ownership of the means of production and the different ways of combining the means of production with workers, the means of production also have different properties. Under the capitalist system, the means of production belong to capitalists, and the proletariat who has lost the means of production can only combine with the means of production and produce under the control of capitalists. The means of production has become a means for capitalists to exploit wage labor, which is manifested as production capital. Under the socialist system, the means of production are public property, and workers are co-owners of the means of production. The means of production are no longer expressed as production capital, but become the material form of production funds.

Content determines form, and form reacts on content. Therefore, the relationship between productivity and production is the relationship between decision and reaction, and it is the further development and concretization of the relationship of unity of opposites.